US Patent Issued to SeaSpine on June 10 for "Expandable implant with deflectable sequence of segments" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,744, issued on June 10, was assigned to SeaSpine Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Expandable implant with deflectable sequence of segments" was invented by Netanel Sharabani (Rishpon, Israel), Nadav Lavochkin (Hadera, Israel) and Oded Loebl (Tel-Mond, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implant (100, 200, 300, 400) includes a base (10), and a sequence of at least two segments including a first segment (12) and a last segment (14). The first segment (12) is pivotally linked to base (10). Adjacent segments are interconnected at pivotal connections (18). A bolt (20) has a threaded shaft (22) and a head (24). The threaded shaft (22) is eng...