ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,100, issued on April 1, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).
"Bone fragment collector and processor" was invented by Clifford Edwin Lambarth (Portage, Mich.), Jason James Wroblewski (Portage, Mich.), Robin Beverly Wynne Babaris (Portage, Mich.) and Dennis Alan Stratton (Plainwell, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device (10) for collecting and processing bone fragments is disclosed. The device comprises a chamber member (12), a press member (14), an intake port (16), and a vacuum port (18). A compression surface (20) and a filter support surface (22) configured to support a filter are defined by said chamber and/or p...