US Patent Issued to Stryker on Oct. 14 for "Delivery system and method for delivering material to a target site during a medical procedure" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,293, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Delivery system and method for delivering material to a target site during a medical procedure" was invented by John J. Janik (Hudsonville, Mich.) and Robert A. Brindley (Delton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Delivery systems and methods for delivering a material to a target site. A delivery instrument is coupled to a robotic manipulator and includes a delivery device with a distal tip having an opening to deliver the material to the target site. Controller(s) obtain a virtual model of the target site and a virtual boundary associated with the virtual mod...