ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,558, issued on April 29.
"Method of making a bone-repair element" was invented by Marcus Jaeger (Essen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filter assembly for a surgical suction system. The filter assembly has a containment defining a filter chamber an intake fitting on an upstream end of the chamber, an output fitting on an opposite downstream end of the chamber, and a filter element in the filter chamber and made at least partially of a bioresorbable bone substitute so that autologous tissue components carried in a fluid flowing from the fitting through the filter element in the filter chamber are trapped by the filter element...