US Patent Issued to Heraeus Medical on April 21 for "Method and device for mixing bone cement with depressurization" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,196, issued on April 21, was assigned to Heraeus Medical GmbH (Wehrheim, Germany).

"Method and device for mixing bone cement with depressurization" was invented by Sebastian Vogt (Wehrheim, Germany) and Thomas Kluge (Wehrheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect is a method for producing a bone cement from monomer liquid and cement powder using a depressurization device. The method is performed using a device comprising a cartridge having a drive piston, and a central piston being permeable to gases and the monomer liquid and impermeable to the cement powder and being arranged between the drive piston and a cartridge h...