US Patent Issued to SPINE WAVE on Jan. 28 for "Interbody fusion device comprising textured surfaces" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,020, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to SPINE WAVE INC. (Shelton, Conn.).

"Interbody fusion device comprising textured surfaces" was invented by Peter Barreiro (Trumbull, Conn.), Scott McLean (Sandy Hook, Conn.) and Daniel Vigliotti (Guilford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An expandable interbody fusion device and an associated instrument for inserting the device into an intervertebral disc space, expanding the device and for use in delivering graft material into the device once expanded in the disc space. The device is small enough to fit through Kambin's triangle yet is capable of expanding both in the vertical direction to ...