US Patent Issued to Stryker on June 3 for "Waste receiver for receiving a pharmaceutical waste material" (Michigan, South Carolina, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,823, issued on June 3, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Waste receiver for receiving a pharmaceutical waste material" was invented by Brian James VanDerWoude (Portage, Mich.), David A. Maness (Mt. Pleasant, S.C.), Bryan Matthew Ulmer (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Dennis B. Meyer (Augusta, Mich.), Lucas Wade (Austin, Texas), Stephen Myers (Austin, Texas), Logan Castillo (Hutto, Texas) and Heather Benoit (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A waste disposal system with a waste receiver for receiving pharmaceutical waste material. A locking assembly is secured to a fixed surface and actuated from a locked configuration ...