US Patent Issued to Aurora Spine on Nov. 25 for "Spinal implant for motion preservation or fusion" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,411, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Aurora Spine Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Spinal implant for motion preservation or fusion" was invented by Trent James Northcutt (Oceanside, Calif.) and Laszlo Garamszegi (Mission Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interspinous posterior device (IPD) is described. The IPD has a body and bone fixation elements on either side of the body, each of said bone fixation elements having a ratchet locking mechanism for fixing the body to successive spinous processes of a mammalian vertebra. Each of the bone fixation elements is independently adjustable by ratcheting it separately and independ...