ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,468, issued on March 3, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).
"Implant load feedback apparatus" was invented by Nicholas Meadows (Langhorne, Pa.), Philip Levins (Conshohocken, Pa.), Timothy James (Hatboro, Pa.), George Yacoub (Lansdale, Pa.) and Patrick Murray (Collegeville, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations include apparatuses for providing feedback on an implant. In a particular implementation, an apparatus includes: a transport device for loading the implant in a patient; an actuator coupled with the transport device for actuating movement of the implant in the patient; and a load indicator c...