US Patent Issued to Blue Ocean Spine on June 3 for "Adjustable spinal implants, associated instruments and methods" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,307, issued on June 3, was assigned to Blue Ocean Spine GmbH (Germany).

"Adjustable spinal implants, associated instruments and methods" 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 implanting 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 placement against a...