US Patent Issued to New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled maintaining the Hospital for Special Surgery on Oct. 7 for "Spinal fusion instrumentation system and methods of using same" (New York, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,636, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled maintaining the Hospital for Special Surgery (New York).

"Spinal fusion instrumentation system and methods of using same" was invented by Sohrab Virk (Dix Hills, N.Y.), Harvinder Sandhu (Greenwich, Conn.) and Sheeraz Qureshi (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument kit for spinal fusion. The instrument kit includes a curved trocar (10), a flexible cannula (30) for positioning over the curved trocar, a flexible rasp device (70), and a bone graft delivery container (90)."

The patent was filed on Oct. 29, 2020, under...