ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,488, issued on April 14, was assigned to HILO INNOVATIONS LLC (Wilmington, Del.).
"Bi-planar expandable cage for spine" was invented by Sean Kyong-Ho Keem (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An expandable cage for a spine includes an upper structural body, a lower structural body, a main frame having control mechanism insertion holes defined through one side and the other side in the longitudinal direction thereof, respectively, a sagittal balance control unit coupled to one side of each of the upper structural body and the lower structural body to control a sagittal balance of a spine by adjusting a spacing distan...