US Patent Issued to Stryker European Operations Holdings on Oct. 20 for "Bone marrow harvesting and storage" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,883, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Stryker European Operations Holdings LLC (Portage, Mich.).

"Bone marrow harvesting and storage" was invented by Nils Reimers (Kiel, Germany) and Robin Buscher (Heikendorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of extracting bone and/or cellular material from a patient for possible use in a later surgical procedure, which involves that patient or even a different patient, are provided. An embodiment of the method generally comprises extracting bone and/or cellular material from a patient undergoing a routine surgical procedure, saving the material, and then sending it to a storage, sepa...