US Patent Issued to Stryker European Operations Holdings on April 1 for "Interbody implants and optimization features thereof" (New Jersey, New York, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,091, issued on April 1, was assigned to Stryker European Operations Holdings LLC (Portage, Mich.).

"Interbody implants and optimization features thereof" was invented by Collin Newman (Wayne, N.J.), Christian Karl Schultz (Denver), Steven Willis (Jackson, N.J.), Amir Ali Sharifi-Mehr (Bloomingdale, N.J.), Oliver Buchert (Franklin Lakes, N.J.), Christopher P. Bell (New York), Andrew Edward Ehlers (Monroe, N.Y.), Anna Reza (Montclair, N.J.), Marc Gilles Long (Monmouth Junction, N.J.) and Joseph Henry Robinson (New City, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spinal interbody device (IBD) includes a solid wall that at least partially def...