US Patent Issued to NEXUS SPINE on Feb. 24 for "Systems and methods for measuring and applying a spinal compression force" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,084, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NEXUS SPINE LLC (Salt Lake City).

"Systems and methods for measuring and applying a spinal compression force" was invented by Peter A Halverson (Draper, Utah) and David T. Hawkes (Pleasant Grove, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for measuring and applying a spinal compression force are provided. Some implementations of the systems and methods include a compression instrument having one or more compressors or gauges. In some cases, the compressor is configured to apply the spinal compression force to a spine of a patient. In some cases, the gauge is configured to measure t...