US Patent Issued to NuVasive on Nov. 4 for "Systems and methods for correcting spinal curvature and associated instruments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,415, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NuVasive Inc. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for correcting spinal curvature and associated instruments" was invented by Michael Krasovic (San Diego), Hayden Chun (San Diego) and Jacqueline M. Bierre (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect of the disclosure relates to vertebral body derotation (VBD) system. In one embodiment, the VBD system includes a first pair of derotation towers and a second pair of derotation towers, a first transverse coupler coupled to the first pair of derotation towers and a second transverse coupler coupled to the second pair of derotation towers, and at...