US Patent Issued to Blue Ocean Spine on Jan. 27 for "Adjustable spinal implants and related deployment instruments" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,242, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Blue Ocean Spine GmbH (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Adjustable spinal implants and related deployment instruments" was invented by Guntmar Eisen (Tuttlingen, Germany), Markus Salvermoser (Tuttlingen-Mohringen, Germany) and Jacob Richter (Tuttlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides adjustable spinal devices, instruments for deploying the spinal devices, methods for adjusting the height and/or lordosis angles of the spinal devices, and methods for implanting such devices. An adjustable spinal fusion device includes an upper plate having an outer surface for placem...