ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,282, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).
"Navigated force sensing instruments" was invented by Patrick Murray (Collegeville, Pa.), David Leff (Philadelphia), Albert Hill (Richboro, Pa.), John LaColla (West Chester, Pa.), Shruthi Muralidharan (Philadelphia), Jeff Nichols (Medford, N.J.) and Amir Soltanianzadeh (King of Prussia, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Navigated force sensing instrument, systems, and methods. The navigated force sensing instruments may be used for applying forces to correct the spine, for example, in compression, distraction, reduction, and/or derotation. The trackable inst...