US Patent Issued to 3SPINE on Sept. 9 for "Total spinal joint systems with motion moderators" (Tennessee, Alaska, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,046, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to 3SPINE Inc. (Chattanooga, Tenn.).

"Total spinal joint systems with motion moderators" was invented by Marc M Peterman (Duxbury, Mass.), Steven C Humphreys (Chattanooga, Tenn.) and Scott Hodges (Soldatna, Alaska).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are devices, system and methods for spinal implants to be deployed into an intervertebral space between adjacent vertebrae to replace the function of the intervertebral disc and the facets, while restoring stability, flexibility, coronal alignment/balance, sagittal alignment/balance and proper biomechanical motion."

The patent was filed on Aug. ...