US Patent Issued to Silony Spine on Sept. 8 for "Porous implantable interbody devices" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,014, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Silony Spine Corp. (Doral, Fla.).

"Porous implantable interbody devices" was invented by John Parry (West Chester, Pa.), Andrew McQuaide (Lincoln University, Pa.) and Kevin Tapper (West Chester, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various porous implantable interbody or spinal fusion devices, which may be formed of metal, metal alloy or polymer are provided. These porous implantable interbody devices may be engineered to have a porous network or scaffold structure for repairing and/or replacing damaged bone segments in the spine while allowing better fusion for improved bone healing and bone reg...