US Patent Issued to Octagon Spine on Dec. 9 for "Transversely expandable minimally invasive intervertebral cage" (Washington, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,082, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Octagon Spine LLC (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Transversely expandable minimally invasive intervertebral cage" was invented by Omar F. Jimenez (Seattle) and Yefim I. Safris (Golden Valley, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for intervertebral body fusion that provide more robust support within the disc space. Intervertebral body fusion devices can have a unitary monolithic body including a plurality of body segments interconnected with each other by flexure members. Devices be configured to be inserted through an opening in a compressed configuration and then exp...