US Patent Issued to DeGen Medical on June 17 for "Expandable intervertebral spacers" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,657, issued on June 17, was assigned to DeGen Medical Inc. (Florence, S.C.).

"Expandable intervertebral spacers" was invented by Charles Robert Lucasiewicz (Florence, S.C.) and Craig Black (Florence, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technical description relates to an expandable intervertebral spacer configured to engage an intervertebral disk. An example expandable intervertebral spacer includes a main body, a first endplate, a second endplate, a driving member, and an actuation member. The expandable intervertebral spacer is transitions from a first configuration to a second configuration by structural interfacing between st...