ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,943, issued on March 11, was assigned to GBS Commonwealth Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) and PMT Republic Inc. (Walnut, Calif.).

"Method of manufacturing spinal cage for improving bone union rate" was invented by Kyoung Gee Ahn (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a spinal cage for improving a bone union rate, including preparing a cage body to be processed including a polymer material, sanding the surface of the cage body roughly by spraying ceramic beads onto the surface of the cage body, and depositing a coating film with a metal material on the surface of the cage body, in whic...