ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,818, issued on March 24, was assigned to Intelligent Implants Ltd. (Cork, Ireland).

"System and method for scaling orthopedic implant stimulation" was invented by Erik Robert Zellmer (Gothenburg, Sweden) and John Zellmer (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for spinal fusion that can include: a spinal cage body that includes at least one defined graft window cavity; a plurality of electrodes exposed on the surface of the spinal cage body; control circuitry configured to drive the plurality of electrodes in a stimulation mode; wherein there is at least a targeted osteoinduction region and a targeted ...