US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Sept. 30 for "Expandable intervertebral interbody implants" (Missouri, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,038, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Expandable intervertebral interbody implants" was invented by Munish Gupta (Frontenac, Mo.), Colm McLaughlin (Glenside, Pa.) and Matthew Andraka (Conshohocken, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Expandable fusion devices, systems, instruments, and methods thereof. The expandable fusion implant may include an upper endplate and a lower endplate configured to engage adjacent vertebrae, an expansion gear configured to adjust a height of the upper endplate, a locking collar configured to attach to an inserter instrument at multiple orientations for a desired s...