US Patent Issued to INTEGRITY IMPLANTS on March 4 for "Scaffolding with locking expansion member" (California, Florida, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,546, issued on March 4, was assigned to INTEGRITY IMPLANTS INC. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

"Scaffolding with locking expansion member" was invented by John To (Newark, Calif.), John J. Flynn (Walnut Creek, Calif.), John Souza (Monroe, N.C.) and Andrew Wolf (Jupiter, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intervertebral scaffolding system is provided having an expandable frame operable for a reversible collapse from an expanded state into a collapsed state, the expandable frame having a stabilizer, one or more tensioners, or a combination of the stabilizer with one or more tensioners. The stabilizer slidably engages with the distal r...