US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Oct. 6 for "Articulating expandable intervertebral implant" (Pennsylvania, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,835, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Articulating expandable intervertebral implant" was invented by Mark Weiman (Downingtown, Pa.) and Kurt Faulhaber (Cape Coral, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spacer for separating bones of a joint, the spacer includes a frame having a longitudinal axis, and ramped surfaces. An endplate configured to engage a bone of the joint has ramped surfaces mateable with the ramped surfaces of the frame. When the endplate is moved relative to the frame in a direction along the longitudinal axis of the frame, the endplate is moved in a direction away from the frame ...