US Patent Issued to Stryker European Operations on April 15 for "Bone fragment collector and processor" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,629, issued on April 15, was assigned to Stryker European Operations Ltd. (Carrigtwohill, Ireland).

"Bone fragment collector and processor" was invented by Patrick Eoin Cushen (County Cork, Ireland), Johannes Jacobus Jacobs (Cork, Ireland) and Garrett Daly (Cork, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for collecting bone fragments includes a housing (512) and a filter element (522) disposed in the housing. The filter element has a first end (524), a second end (526), and a sidewall (528) that defines an inner peripheral (530) and outer peripheral (532) surface and includes a plurality of filter apertures (534). The inner peri...