US Patent Issued to ForCyte Medical, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation on April 7 for "Bone void filler preparation system" (Minnesota, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,364, issued on April 7, was assigned to ForCyte Medical LLC (Marietta, Ga.) and The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland).

"Bone void filler preparation system" was invented by Robert Assell (Minneapolis), Andrew Freeman (Minneapolis) and George Muschler (Cleveland Heights, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bone void filler preparation system that includes a processing vessel, a processing cover, a bone void filler preparation container and tubing. The processing vessel has a recess formed therein. The processing vessel is adapted to receive bone marrow aspirate. The processing cover includes an outer wall, a central wall membe...