US Patent Issued to NEW WORLD TECHNOLOGIES AND DATA on March 18 for "Interbody spinal cage" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,319, issued on March 18, was assigned to NEW WORLD TECHNOLOGIES AND DATA (Glen Allen, Va.).

"Interbody spinal cage" was invented by Nazmi Peyman (Richmond, Va.), Edmond Zahedi (Burnaby, Canada) and Steven Fiore (Richmond, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interbody spinal cage when implanted can be manipulated non-invasively to change dimensions conforming to contours of adjacent vertebral bones. The interbody spinal cage includes a flexible shell that encases multiple variable-length rods. Each of the multiple variable-length rods includes telescoping tubes and an actuator for increasing and decreasing the length of the telesco...