US Patent Issued to Stryker on Aug. 5 for "Bone mill with an accessible milling element" (Michigan, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,971, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Bone mill with an accessible milling element" was invented by Robin B. W. Babaris (Portage, Mich.), Aaron Hoffmann (Plainwell, Mich.), Clifford Edwin Lambarth (Portage, Mich.), Derek F. Nelson (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Steven M. Rolfsen Jr. (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Shammodip Roy (Wayne, N.J.), James Walen (Portage, Mich.) and Jason James Wroblewski (Portage, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A milling module for converting bone stock into bone chips comprises a shell adapted for releasable attachment to a base module. The shell has an inlet opening through which bone stoc...