US Patent Issued to H & M Innovations on Sept. 2 for "Collecting and harvesting cut bone from rongeur" (North Carolina, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,980, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to H & M Innovations LLC (Wilmington, N.C.).

"Collecting and harvesting cut bone from rongeur" was invented by Robert Sean Hensler (Wilmington, N.C.), Thomas Eric Melin (Wilmington, N.C.), Ryan Shane Gorman (Charlotte, N.C.), Raeshon Lamont Mcneil (Charlotte, N.C.), Michael Morgan Starkey (Kent, Ohio) and Thomas James Philpott (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collector used to collect bone includes: a container body defining an interior containment space for receiving and retaining collected bone, and having at least one open end for access and removal of collected bone from the i...