US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE on Nov. 4 for "Cloward-style cervical mesh cage with lateral stabilizers" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,507, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE (Baltimore).

"Cloward-style cervical mesh cage with lateral stabilizers" was invented by Charles Sansur (Towson, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Cloward-style cage device for anterior cervical fusion and fixation includes a body and a lateral stabilizer. The device uses the historical Cloward-style approach, and, as such, decompresses the interbody disc. The device can be used with a cylindrical drill bit to drill through the interbody disc to remove a portion of the interbody endplates to decompress a remaining portion of the interbody disc. The lateral por...