US Patent Issued to WARSAW ORTHOPEDIC on April 8 for "Interbody implant with adjusting shims" (Florida, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,614, issued on April 8, was assigned to WARSAW ORTHOPEDIC Inc. (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Interbody implant with adjusting shims" was invented by Jonathan M. Dewey (Memphis, Tenn.) and Richard A. Hynes (Melbourne Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An expandable implant may include a superior endplate and an inferior endplate hingedly coupled together. The superior endplate may have at least one track extending in a proximal-to-distal direction and an inferior endplate may have at least one track extending in the proximal-to-distal direction. The implant may further include a proximal plate having a superior engagement surface and an in...