US Patent Issued to Stryker on April 22 for "Systems and methods for off-axis treatment of a vertebral body" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,799, issued on April 22, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for off-axis treatment of a vertebral body" was invented by Gabriel James Harshman (Portage, Mich.), Christopher Scott Brockman (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Beau Michael Kidman (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for augmenting a vertebral body. An introducer device includes a shaft having a flexible distal portion with a pre-set curve in an unconstrained state. An input provided to an actuator to tension a pulling element to move the pre-set curve to a constrained state in which the distal portion and a flexible sh...