ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,296, issued on July 14, was assigned to Highridge Medical LLC (Westminster, Colo.).

"Intervertebral implants" was invented by Samuel Jebsen (Arvada, Colo.), Ryan Watson (Boulder, Colo.), Marc Bereau (Saint-Andre-les-Vergers, France) and Edouard Jouan (Lavau, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interbody implant can comprise a cage and a porous structure. The cage can comprise an anterior segment, a medial segment, a posterior segment and a lateral segment contiguously connected to each other to define an interior space. The porous structure can be located in the interior space and can be bounded by the cage. The porous structure...