US Patent Issued to CUTTING EDGE SPINE on Aug. 5 for "Implants for tissue fixation and fusion" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,895, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to CUTTING EDGE SPINE LLC (Mineral Springs, N.C.).

"Implants for tissue fixation and fusion" was invented by Kyle Kuntz (Waxhaw, N.C.) and Shyam Patel (Waxhaw, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixation implant includes a head, a shank and a distal tip, and one or more of the head, shank and distal tip may be cannulated. The shank includes a threaded ingrowth portion extending from the head to the tapered distal tip that includes external threads, and at least one open network body extending along the length of the ingrowth portion. The open network body selected from one or a combination of a h...