US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on July 1 for "Expandable fusion device and method of installation thereof" (Virginia, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,265, issued on July 1, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides 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 body, a first endplate, and a second endplate, a middle ramp piece, a stem, and two ramp pins. The middle rampe...