US Patent Issued to Stryker on Jan. 27 for "Mixing device and methods for making bone cement" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,644, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Mixing device and methods for making bone cement" was invented by Christopher Scott Brockman (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Gabriel James Harshman (Portage, Mich.), David Robert Boboltz (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Aurianna Salem Turvold (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mixing device and methods for making bone cement. A piston (156) of the mixing device is located in a first region (158) of a chamber (112) such that a mixing paddle (154) rotates to mix bone cement components at a first pressure to make a bone cement mixture. The piston (156) is moved passed an...