US Patent Issued to KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION on Sept. 23 for "Spinal cage" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,757, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Daegu, South Korea).

"Spinal cage" was invented by Dae-Chul Cho (Daegu, South Korea) and Gunwoo Noh (Daegu, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is a spinal cage. The spinal cage includes a bone support portion configured to be disposed between a first vertebra at an upper side and a second vertebra at a lower side to support the first vertebra, a base portion positioned at a lower side of the bone support portion to come in contact with the second vertebra, and a sidewall portion which has an upper side en...