ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,233, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to VB Spine US Opco LLC (Leesburg, Va.).

"Spinal interbody implants" was invented by Sean Corcoran (Ashburn, Va.), Keith Fava (Purcellville, Va.), Kenneth Dieselman (Reading, Mass.), Jennifer Anne Moore (Leesburg, Va.), Amir Ali Sharifi-Mehr (Bloomingdale, N.J.), Christopher P. Bell (New York), Steven Willis (Jackson, N.J.), Russell Simms (San Jose, Calif.), Justyna Zielinska (Bridgewater, N.J.), Christian Karl Schultz (Denver, N.J.), Clint Boyd (Leesburg, Va.), Eleftherios Louvis (Carrigaline, Ireland), Leonid Pavlovsky (Parsippany, N.J.) and Joseph Henry Robinson (New City, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trad...