ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,830, issued on April 22, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Surgical instrument including housing, a cutting accessory that extends from the housing and actuators that establish the position of the cutting accessory relative to the housing" was invented by Timothy J. Bozung (Belding, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including an instrument adapted to be manually supported and moved by a user. The instrument having a hand-held portion, a drive mechanism movably coupled to the hand-held portion, and a plurality of actuators operatively coupled to the drive mechanism for moving the drive mechanism in at least t...