US Patent Issued to Stryker on Oct. 14 for "Surgical helmet assembly having an adjustment mechanism" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,992, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Surgical helmet assembly having an adjustment mechanism" was invented by Matthew Van Nortwick (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Beau M. Kidman (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical helmet assembly to be worn by a user during surgical operations. The surgical helmet assembly includes a frame assembly having a helmet shell to be worn over the user's head. A fan is coupled to the helmet shell to circulate air around the helmet shell. A headband assembly is coupled to the helmet shell to secure the surgical helmet assembly to the head of the user. The sur...