US Patent Issued to Life Spine on Sept. 16 for "Vertebral endplate shaver with height adjustable blades" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,780, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Life Spine Inc. (Huntley, Ill.).

"Vertebral endplate shaver with height adjustable blades" was invented by Daniel P. Predick (Wheat Ridge, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vertebral endplate preparation (decorticating) tool has height adjustable blades at a distal end of a shaft assembly for decorticating/shaving vertebral endplate material from spinal vertebrae, translates axial movement of a control rod o the shaft assembly of the vertebral endplate preparation tool with height adjustable blades into radial blade height change (extension and retraction) through a controller of a handl...