US Patent Issued to CTL Medical on Sept. 23 for "Spinal cage with modular anchoring elements" (New Jersey, Texas, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,758, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to CTL Medical Corp. (Addison, Texas).

"Spinal cage with modular anchoring elements" was invented by Bala K Giri (Dallas), Jon Suh (Ambler, Pa.) and Sean Suh (Milltown, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a modular anchoring adaptor that engages with existing features of commercially available ALIF cages to help eliminate migration and/or anterior expulsion cause by the instability of the spine, such as lordosis. Such modular adaptor will mate or engage with existing features to enhance anchoring within the vertebral disc space, which space is limited and a low-profile s...