US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on June 16 for "Expandable vertebral implant" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,691, issued on June 16, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Expandable vertebral implant" was invented by Jody L. Seifert (Birdsboro, Pa.), Chad Glerum (Pennsburg, Pa.), Mark Weiman (Downingtown, Pa.), Mark Adams (Downingtown, Pa.), David C. Paul (Phoenixville, Pa.) and Jason Zappacosta (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A joint spacer therapeutically maintains separation of bones of a joint. A carriage is slideably retained within the frame and has at least one ramped surface. An actuator screw is threadably engaged with the frame, and rotatably connected to the carriage, to cause the carriage to slideably...