US Patent Issued to Spinal Simplicity on July 21 for "Compressible cervical plate" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,572, issued on July 21, was assigned to Spinal Simplicity LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Compressible cervical plate" was invented by Adam Frock (Lenexa, Kan.), Adam Rogers (Olathe, Kan.) and Todd Moseley (Olathe, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compressible plate including a plurality of plate segments for compressing two or more osseous structures. The compressible cervical plate includes a spring retaining member extending from at least one plate segment and a spring retaining member recess disposed at another plate segment, the spring retaining member recess receiving the spring retaining member. A spring disposed at the sprin...