US Patent Issued to STRYKER on Oct. 6 for "Apparati, instruments, systems and methods of use and assembly" (Massachusetts, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,701, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to STRYKER Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Apparati, instruments, systems and methods of use and assembly" was invented by Michael O'Neill (Charleston, S.C.) and Garrett Deborst (Rockland, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus including a cylinder with a first end and a second end, a passive check valve with a first end and a second end, wherein the passive check valve is positioned at at least one of the first end and the second end of the cylinder, and a harvesting member coupled to the first end of the cylinder. A harvesting system includes an apparatus and a removal attachment coupled to th...