Spinal implant systems maker CoreLink (St. Louis) said today that it has acquired the privately held Israeli medical device company Expanding Orthopedics and its FDA-cleared expanding and articulating FLXfit and FLXfit 15 titanium transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion systems.

Besides acquiring the FLXfit and FLXfit 15, the Expanding Orthopedics purchase also gives CoreLink a broad array of patents and in-development products related to expandable interbody and spinal fusion.