US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Sept. 15 for "Stabilized expandable intervertebral spacer" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,042, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Stabilized expandable intervertebral spacer" was invented by 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 first endplate configured to engage a first bone of the joint, and comprising a ramped surface; a tissue engaging subassembly disposed in a compartment of the first endplate; a second endplate configured to engage a second bone of the joint; and a frame subassembly that extends between the first endplate and the second endplate. The frame subassembly comprises a drive nu...