US Patent Issued to JILIN UNIVERSITY on Sept. 30 for "Bionic inter vertebral disc with mechanical anisotropy" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,032, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to JILIN UNIVERSITY (Changchun, China).

"Bionic inter vertebral disc with mechanical anisotropy" was invented by Zhihui Qian (Changchun, China), Weiguo Fan (Changchun, China), Lei Ren (Changchun, China), Kunyang Wang (Changchun, China), Shengli Wang (Changchun, China), Guangsheng Song (Changchun, China), Xia Xie (Changchun, China) and Luquan Ren (Changchun, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bionic intervertebral disc with mechanical anisotropy includes an upper end plate, a core and a lower end plate. The core includes outer fibrous rings, a middle transition zone and an inner nucleus pulpo...