US Patent Issued on March 4 for "Method and apparatus for placement of a reduced vertebral body replacement device during a surgical operation on the cervical portion of the spine including into a transcorporeal void" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,543, issued on March 4.

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing a Vertebral Body Replacement (VBR) device for placement into a cervical spine between two endplates of a single vertebra during the course of an anterior spinal surgical procedure upon the cervical spine, wherein the VBR device has been given a PLR product code from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)."

The patent was f...