US Patent Issued to Life Spine on Sept. 16 for "Two-piece spine implant installation instrument for use with an endoscope and method of use" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,864, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Life Spine Inc. (Huntley, Ill.).

"Two-piece spine implant installation instrument for use with an endoscope and method of use" was invented by Daniel P. Predick (Wheat Ridge, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A two-piece medical instrument for installing an expandable interbody (intervertebral) spine implant via an endoscope, has a handle assembly and a shaft assembly configured for extension through the endoscope, the shaft assembly holding an expandable interbody spine implant when the shaft assembly is fully received by a head of the handle assembly, and releasing the spine implant upon...