US Patent Issued to WARSAW ORTHOPEDIC on Sept. 2 for "Expandable spinal implant system and method of using same" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,018, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to WARSAW ORTHOPEDIC Inc. (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Expandable spinal implant system and method of using same" was invented by Charles Branch (Advance, N.C.), Charles Fisher (Vancouver, Canada), Mladen Djurasovic (Louisville, Ky.), Marcel Dvorak (Vancouver, Canada), Sigurd Berven (San Francisco), Anthony J. Melkent (Germantown, Tenn.), Jonathan M. Dewey (Memphis, Tenn.), Keith E. Miller (Germantown, Tenn.) and Adriaan J. Kuyler (Germantown, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An expandable spinal implant includes a distal projection extending from only one side of the implant, ending in an anterior tip, t...