US Patent Issued to Stryker on Aug. 26 for "Device including steering cables for creating a cavity or a channel in bone" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,738, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Device including steering cables for creating a cavity or a channel in bone" was invented by Christopher Scott Brockman (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Geoffrey J. Vangemert (Portage, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for creating a cavity or a channel in bone. First and second steering cables are coupled to a flexible elbow or a tip of a shaft. A control assembly is operably coupled to the first and second steering cables and configured to tension one of the steering cables and slacken another one of the steering cables so as to flex the flexible elbow. The ...