US Patent Issued to Stryker on Nov. 18 for "Waste disposal system and waste receiver for receiving and disposing of pharmaceutical waste material" (Michigan, South Carolina, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,543, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Waste disposal system and waste receiver for receiving and disposing of 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 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 for receiving pharmaceutical waste material including at least one of a solid phase pharmaceutical waste material and...