US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Oct. 20 for "Laterally insertable intervertebral spinal implant" (Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,010, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Laterally insertable intervertebral spinal implant" was invented by Alex Burkhardt (Akron, Pa.), Jenna Israel (Philadelphia) and Adam Friedrich (Cinnaminson, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intervertebral implant for implantation in an intervertebral space between vertebrae. The implant includes a body having a front end, a rear end and a pair of spaced apart first and second side walls extending between the front and rear ends. The front and rear ends extend in a transverse direction and a central axis of the body extends from the rear end to the fro...