US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Oct. 28 for "Vertebral implants and methods for installation thereof" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,641, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Vertebral implants and methods for installation thereof" was invented by George Howard (Green Lane, Pa.), James Himmelberger (Souderton, Pa.), Jason Gray (East Greenville, Pa.), Colm McLaughlin (Glenside, Pa.), Noah Hansell (King of Prussia, Pa.) and Mark Weiman (Downingtown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein are generally directed to vertebral implants and implant trials for use with vertebral implant assemblies. In some embodiments, these implants and implant trials may be used in conjunction with corpectomy procedures."

The patent was...