US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Oct. 20 for "Expandable tibial tray insert trial" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,012, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Expandable tibial tray insert trial" was invented by Aaron Elcock (Philadelphia), Jason Zappacosta (Philadelphia), Andrew Mike (Phoenixville, Pa.) and Ryan Frasca (Phoenixville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Knee arthroplasty trials, systems, and methods regarding the same. The knee arthroplasty trial system may include an expandable tibial tray trial having top and bottom plates, an actuation screw retained in the bottom plate, and an expansion ramp configured to slide along the bottom plate and lift the top plate as the ramp translates forward. The ac...