US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on June 10 for "Articulating expandable interbody fusions devices" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,745, issued on June 10, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Exton, Pa.).

"Articulating expandable interbody fusions devices" was invented by Ty Hessler (Phoenixville, Pa.), Chad Glerum (Pennsburg, Pa.), Mark Weiman (Downingtown, Pa.), Albert Hill (Richboro, Pa.) and Myles Sullivan (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Articulating expandable fusion devices, systems, instruments, and methods thereof. The articulating expandable fusion implant having a plurality of links is capable of being deployed and articulated inside an intervertebral disc space link by link. After the links are articulated into a polygonal shape, the link...