ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,295, issued on July 14, was assigned to The Third Hospital of Changsha (Chungsha City, China).

"3D printing self-stabilizing cervical interbody fusion cage" was invented by Lei Fan (Changsha City, China), Qing Lei (Changsha City, China), Li Chen (Changsha City, China) and Minghui Jiang (Changsha City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel 3D (three-dimensional) printing self-stabilizing cervical interbody fusion cage is provided, including a fusion cage body, circular-arc notches arranged at four corners of a front side surface of the fusion cage body, and threaded openings are formed in interiors of the circular arc notches a...