US Patent Issued to Stryker on April 8 for "Stabilization system, implant, and methods for preventing relative motion between sections of tissue" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,423, issued on April 8, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Stabilization system, implant, and methods for preventing relative motion between sections of tissue" was invented by Gabriel Harshman (Portage, Mich.) and Christopher Brockman (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for preventing relative motion between bones or sections of bone, for example, an ilium and a sacrum. The system includes an insertion tool and an implant. The implant includes a trunk, a distal anchor, a proximal anchor, and a stem coupled to the trunk. A driver of the insertion tool receives an input for a drive shaft of the inse...