ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,798, issued on June 9, was assigned to Highridge Medical LLC (Westminster, Colo.).
"Systems for attenuation of increased spinal flexion loads post-fusion and associated methods" was invented by Anup Gandhi (Superior, Colo.), Jason Inzana (Westminster, Colo.), John Caridi (Westminster, Colo.) and Samuel Cho (Westminster, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations described herein include devices and systems for attenuation of increased spinal flexion loads post-fusion that include a transition member. The transition member may have a tension component coupleable to a fused vertebra of a plurality of fused vertebra of a fusion...