US Patent Issued to LIFE SPINE on Oct. 27 for "Expandable implant with pivoting control assembly" (Illinois, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,321, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to LIFE SPINE INC. (Huntley, Ill.).

"Expandable implant with pivoting control assembly" was invented by Garrett Lauf (Hampshire, Ill.), Brett Nowak (Lake in the Hills, Ill.), Daniel Predick (Wheat Ridge, Colo.) and Paul Christopher Zakelj (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An expandable implant includes a lower support; an upper support pivotally coupled to the lower support and including a control channel; and a control assembly. The control assembly includes a control shaft coupled to the lower support and a control member coupled to the control shaft and configured to move along the contro...