US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on June 16 for "Expandable interbody fusions devices" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,692, issued on June 16, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Expandable interbody fusions devices" was invented by Mark Weiman (Downingtown, Pa.), Myles Sullivan (Philadelphia), Tyler Hessler (Phoenixville, Pa.) and Chad Glerum (Pennsburg, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Expandable fusion devices, systems, instruments, and methods thereof. The expandable fusion implant may include an upper endplate assembly and a lower endplate assembly. The upper and lower endplate assemblies may be configured to expand in width. A rotatable actuator may move one or more driving ramps, which mate with an upper ramp and a lower ram...