ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,308, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).
"Systems and methods for draping a medical device" was invented by Pedro A. Perez (Hollister, Calif.) and Jared Coffeen (Hollister, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drape for a medical device, the drape including a flexible drape material for covering at least a portion of a medical device and configured to be cinched in at least one location to form an enclosed space for enclosing the at least a portion of the medical device, and a vacuum manifold that, when the flexible drape material is cinched, is positioned at least partially within the enclosed space...