US Patent Issued to WARSAW ORTHOPEDIC on April 8 for "Motion limiting apparatus for assessing status of spinal implants" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,519, issued on April 8, was assigned to WARSAW ORTHOPEDIC Inc. (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Motion limiting apparatus for assessing status of spinal implants" was invented by Newton Metcalf (Memphis, Tenn.), Arjun Siby Kurian (Memphis, Tenn.), Nicholas Benson (Collierville, Tenn.), Kevin T. Foley (Germantown, Tenn.) and Thomas A. Carls (Memphis, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for assessing a status of a spinal implant includes a wearable apparatus having an electronics system and one or more spinal implants in communication with the wearable apparatus. The electronics system includes a first short-range receiver, a first short-ran...