US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Feb. 25 for "Expandable fusion device and method of installation thereof" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,976, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Expandable fusion device and method of installation thereof" was invented by Mark Weiman (Downingtown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An expandable fusion device capable of being installed inside an intervertebral disc space to maintain normal disc spacing and restore spinal stability, thereby facilitating an intervertebral fusion. In one embodiment, the fusion device includes a central ramp, a first endplate, and a second endplate, the central ramp capable of being moved in a first direction to move the first and second endplates outwardly and into an e...