US Patent Issued to Zavation Medical Products on Sept. 22 for "Anterior lumbar cage and inserter device" (Mississippi Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,865, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Zavation Medical Products LLC (Flowood, Miss.).

"Anterior lumbar cage and inserter device" was invented by John Franklin Cummins (Kosciusko, Miss.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plate and cage assembly for stabilization of vertebral bodies. The assembly includes at least one fixation member, a cage having a proximal wall, a superior surface and an inferior surface (the superior surface and the inferior surface for engaging adjacent vertebrae), and a plate coupled to the cage and having at least one hole traversing the plate at an angle for insertion of the at least one fixation member into ...