ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,970, issued on April 22, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).
"Articulating graft delivery" was invented by Catherine Krawiec (Conshohocken, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graft delivery device includes a graft delivery tube having a main passage for delivering graft material to a surgical implant inserted between adjacent vertebrae of a spine. The graft delivery tube includes an articulating portion proximate an output end of the graft delivery tube. The graft delivery device also includes a pusher device slidable along the main passage to drive graft material through the main passage toward the output end of the...