ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,609, issued on June 10, was assigned to AEGIS SPINE INC. (Englewood, Colo.).
"Adjustable spinal plate" was invented by Youngbo Ahn (Englewood, Colo.), Sungak Choi (Englewood, Colo.), Sangsoo Lee (Englewood, Colo.), Geungrok Kim (Englewood, Colo.) and Jongwon Hong (Englewood, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a spinal plate which is used to perform fixation surgery on a spine in orthopedic surgery and neurosurgery. According to the present invention, a rotation device and a locking device may be installed so as to be used by fixing any one or more of longitudinal ends of the plate with being rotated a...