ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,966, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Aesculap AG (Tuttlingen, Germany).
"Intervertebral implant" was invented by Susanne Klingseis (Biberach, Germany), Irene Marx (Trossingen, Germany), Patricia Graf (Tuttlingen, Germany), Julian Reck (Scheer, Germany), Marie Salome Knubben-Belik (Rottweil, Germany) and Mandy Kleinwechter (Tuttlingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intervertebral implant for insertion into an intervertebral disc space between two adjacent vertebral bodies of a human or animal spine. The intervertebral implant has an implant top side, which defines a first vertebral body abutment face for abutting against ...