US Patent Issued to Spineology on July 21 for "Percutaneous discectomy kit and method" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,543, issued on July 21, was assigned to Spineology Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Percutaneous discectomy kit and method" was invented by Joseph Gleason (Eagan, Minn.), Garrett Ganske (Lino Lakes, Minn.), Dan McPhillips (Ham Lake, Minn.) and Craig Bourgeault (St. Louis Park, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing percutaneous spinal interbody fusion on a spine of a patient can include inserting without direct visualization a neuro-monitoring dilating probe into the patient, performing neuro-monitoring via the neuro-monitoring dilating probe, advancing the neuro-monitoring dilating probe into a disc space, passing a se...