US Patent Issued to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE on Oct. 7 for "Expandable spinal implant" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,758, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Expandable spinal implant" was invented by Hsin-Hsin Shen (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Pei-I Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih-Chieh Huang (Miaoli County, Taiwan), Kuo-Yi Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shih-Ping Lin (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Yi-Hung Wen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wei-Lun Fan (Miaoli County, Taiwan), Shu-Fen Yeh (New Taipei, Taiwan), Ting-Ni Huang (New Taipei, Taiwan) and An-Li Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An expandable spinal implant includes a flexible body, an expander component, a fastener and an anti-reverse mechanism. T...