US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Nov. 3 for "Adjustable devices for treating arthritis of the knee" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,644, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Adjustable devices for treating arthritis of the knee" was invented by Adam G. Beckett (San Diego), Thomas B. Buford (San Diego), Youngsam Bae (San Diego), Edward H. Kim (San Diego) and Matthew Tobias Jacobs (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and related methods for changing the angle of a bone of a subject is provided by the present disclosure. The system may include a non-invasively adjustable implant configured to be placed inside a cavity within the bone. The non-invasively adjustable implant may couple to a first portion of bone and a secon...