US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on March 31 for "Intradiscal fixation systems" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,007, issued on March 31, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Intradiscal fixation systems" was invented by Myles Sullivan (Philadelphia), Carly Taubenkraut (Perkasie, Pa.) and Mark Weiman (Downingtown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Intradiscal implants, systems, and methods thereof. The intradiscal system may include an expandable implant and one or more intradiscal implants. The intradiscal implants may be supplemental to or integrated with the expandable implant. The intradiscal implant may include one or more flexible anchors with a straight configuration and a curved configuration. The anchor may be bendabl...