US Patent Issued to Nuvasive on Sept. 8 for "Methods and apparatus of performing spine surgery" (American, Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,013, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Nuvasive Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and apparatus of performing spine surgery" was invented by Luiz Pimenta (Sao Paulo), Michael Serra (San Diego), Andrew Morris (San Diego), Nathan Lovell (Oceanside, Calif.), Sarah Stoltz (San Diego) and Nelson Oi (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for correcting sagittal imbalance in a spine including instruments for performing the controlled release of the anterior longitudinal ligament through a lateral access corridor and hyper-lordotic lateral implants with detachable fixation tabs."

The patent was filed on June 1...