US Patent Issued to VB Spine US Opco on Sept. 9 for "3D printed cervical standalone implant" (Virginia, California, Washington, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,045, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to VB Spine US Opco LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"3D printed cervical standalone implant" was invented by Jared Gordon Struck (Sterling, Va.), Dane Matthew Johannessen (Reston, Va.), Robert Clint Boyd (Leesburg, Va.), Bryan D. Milz (Florida, N.Y.), Choll Kim (San Diego), Alex Mohit (Puyallup, Wash.) and Yashar Javidan (Sacramento, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an intervertebral implant includes a body and a locking element. The body includes a leading surface and a trailing surface opposite the leading surface. The body also includes first and second bone fastener passageway...