US Patent Issued to VB Spine US Opco on March 24 for "Implants and instruments with flexible features" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,534, issued on March 24, was assigned to VB Spine US Opco LLC (Leesburg, Va.).

"Implants and instruments with flexible features" was invented by Jennifer Anne Moore (Leesburg, Va.), Todd M. Wallenstein (Ashburn, Va.) and Jared Gordon Struck (Sterling, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment of the disclosure, an implant includes a body having a surface with a flexible pattern defined by a plurality of material segments including a first material segment and a second material segment. The first material segment abuts the second material segment. Further, the first material segment includes a first non-linear sh...