ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,235, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to DeGen Medical Inc. (Florence, S.C.).
"Expandable intervertebral spacers" was invented by Kyle Atwood (Darlington, S.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The description relates to an expandable intervertebral spacer configured to engage an intervertebral disk. An example expandable spacer includes a main body, a first endplate, a second endplate, a driving member, a plurality of pins, and an actuation member. The expandable spacer is configured to transition from a first configuration to a second configuration by various structures (e.g., steps, faceted surfaces, curved surfaces, multi-faceted por...