US Patent Issued on June 10 for "Method and apparatus for placement of a vertebral body replacement device into a transcorporeal void during a surgical operation on the cervical portion of the spine" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,743, issued on June 10.

"Method and apparatus for placement of a vertebral body replacement device into a transcorporeal void during a surgical operation on the cervical portion of the spine" was invented by Robert E. Simonson (Boca Raton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing a transcorporeal procedure including placement of a vertebral body replacement device into a transcorporeal void within a cervical spine is disclosed. The method includes creating a working channel through a vertebral body of a vertebra by removing at least a portion of the vertebral body of the vertebra, beginning anteriorly and extending ...