US Patent Issued to Nexus TDR on March 31 for "Systems and methods for patient-specific total disc replacement" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,004, issued on March 31, was assigned to Nexus TDR Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Systems and methods for patient-specific total disc replacement" was invented by David T. Hawkes (Pleasant Grove, Utah) and Peter Halverson (Draper, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of tailoring a spinal implant to correspond to a specific patient's needs includes: pre-operatively evaluating a patient to determine a desired spinal segment response; and modifying one or more features of flexures of an implant to provide the desired spinal segment response. Modifying one or more features of flexures of the implant can include modifying one or more o...