US Patent Issued to NuVasive Specialized Orthopedics on Feb. 3 for "Acoustic reporting for dynamic implants" (California, Wisconsin, Hawaii Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,145, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NuVasive Specialized Orthopedics Inc. (San Diego).

"Acoustic reporting for dynamic implants" was invented by Youngsam Bae (Placentia, Calif.), Michael Moeller (Carlsbad, Calif.), Shanbao Cheng (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Everett Van Zuiden (Chula Vista, Calif.), Edgar Hernandez (Los Angeles), Luke Bilger (Honolulu) and Khoa Pham (Menominie Falls, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure concerns devices and methods for measuring an amount of adjustment of an expandable implant using ultrasound. The implant may include an ultrasound counter including a vibration element tuned for ...