US Patent Issued to Stryker on Oct. 27 for "Systems and methods for augmentation of a vertebral body" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,224, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for augmentation of a vertebral body" was invented by Beau Michael Kidman (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Christopher Scott Brockman (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Gabriel James Harshman (Portage, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for augmenting a vertebral body. The system includes an access cannula, an introducer device, a sheath device, and a treatment device. The introducer device may be moved from unconstrained state to a constrained state in which a pulling element is tensioned. The access cannula may initially prevent the shaft shea...