ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,168, issued on May 26, was assigned to NATIONAL FORMOSA UNIVERSITY (Huwei Township, Taiwan).
"Expandable intervertebral fusion cage" was invented by Shou-I Chen (Huwei Township, Taiwan), Hsin-Yi Lin (Huwei Township, Taiwan), Yi-Kai Chen (Huwei Township, Taiwan), Yu-Hsu Chen (Huwei Township, Taiwan), Mu-Kuang He (Huwei Township, Taiwan), Chuan-Ching Huang (Huwei Township, Taiwan) and Jui-Yo Hsu (Huwei Township, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An expandable intervertebral fusion cage, wherein each first block and second block of the fusion assembly is provided with a receiving groove, and the bottom of the groove includes an incli...