US Patent Issued to WARSAW ORTHOPEDIC on July 8 for "Surgical system and method" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,890, issued on July 8, was assigned to WARSAW ORTHOPEDIC Inc. (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Surgical system and method" was invented by Loic Josse (Collierville, Tenn.), Jerome Nayet (St Genis Pouilly, France) and Bertrand Peultier (Les Hopitaux Neufs, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument includes a member connectable with a longitudinal element of a surgical distractor connected with vertebrae. At least one blade is connected with the member adjacent to an axis oriented transverse to the longitudinal element and being movable to space tissue adjacent the vertebrae. The at least one blade being intra-operatively translatable...