US Patent Issued to University of Washington on Dec. 30 for "Systems for inhibiting heterotopic ossification" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,374, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to University of Washington (Seattle).

"Systems for inhibiting heterotopic ossification" was invented by Brandon J. Ausk (Seattle), Steven Bain (Seattle) and Ted S. Gross (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems for treating a targeted volume of muscle tissue to inhibit heterotopic ossification (HO) employ a delivery device including a reservoir containing a neuromuscular inhibitor and an injector assembly. The injector assembly can include an arrangement of needles and an injector operable to pass the neuromuscular inhibitor from the reservoir through the needles. The injector assembly can...