US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Feb. 17 for "Expandable bone core for pedicle screw fixation" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,241, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Expandable bone core for pedicle screw fixation" was invented by Chad Glerum (Pennsburg, Pa.) and Tyler Hessler (Phoenixville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pedicle bone anchor implants, assemblies, and methods thereof. The implant may include an expandable anchor having a body with expandable sections separated by one or more expansion joints, a plurality of expandable teeth, or an expandable head. The expandable anchor has a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration, thereby creating a press-fit in adjacent bone."

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