US Patent Issued to Warsaw Orthopedic on March 17 for "Spinal implant system and method" (Tennessee, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,938, issued on March 17, was assigned to Warsaw Orthopedic Inc. (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Spinal implant system and method" was invented by Jeffrey W. Beale (Bartlett, Tenn.), Keith E. Miller (Germantown, Tenn.), William Alan Rezach (Covington, Tenn.) and Richard A Hynes (Melbourne Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for treating a spine includes the steps of: creating a surgical pathway in a body along a first surgical approach to a surgical site including vertebral tissue; creating a surgical pathway in the body along a second surgical approach to the surgical site including the vertebral tissue; disposing a fulcrum with an...