ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,256, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Xtant Medical Inc. (Belgrade, Mont.).

"Delivery systems for interspinous, interlaminar stabilization devices and methods of use" was invented by Markus Salvermoser (Tuttlingen-Mohringen, Germany) and Stephan Eckhof (Rietheim-Weilheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides various surgical instruments and delivery systems to properly implant spinous stabilization devices, such as for example, interspinous, interlaminar stabilization devices, in a less invasive manner than what is currently performed. The delivery system may be a tubular delivery system through wh...