US Patent Issued to ASTURA MEDICAL on Oct. 14 for "Expandable articulating transforaminal lumbar interbody spacer" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,347, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to ASTURA MEDICAL INC (Irving, Texas).

"Expandable articulating transforaminal lumbar interbody spacer" was invented by Anthony Valkoun (Irving, Texas) and Thomas Purcell (Irving, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An expandable interbody spacer for placement between adjacent vertebrae having two or more upper and lower endplates and lateral expansion wedges configured to couple a drive means to expand both a height and a width of the expandable interbody spacer from a collapsed state to an expanded state."

The patent was filed on Oct. 11, 2023, under Application No. 18/378,653.

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