US Patent Issued to Stryker on Sept. 16 for "Surgical helmet assembly with a reconfigurable chin bar" (Michigan, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,591, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Surgical helmet assembly with a reconfigurable chin bar" was invented by Douglas Paul Hines (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Sergey Belikov (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Ryan Jefferis (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A face frame including features for coupling the surgical garment to a surgical helmet. The face frame (524) comprises a lower beam (528) connected by a pair of posts (526, 527). The posts of the face frame comprise a face frame coupler (552, 554) configured to removably couple the face frame to a surgical helmet."

The patent was filed on April 30, 2020, unde...