US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on Feb. 24 for "Mechanism for dicing cartilage" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,115, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Mechanism for dicing cartilage" was invented by Patrick J. Byrne (Baltimore), Brooke Stephanian (Terre Haute, Ind.), Sabin Karki (Zionsville, Ind.), Paarth Sharma (Mentone, Calif.), Kirby Tso Leo (Baltimore), Marc Anthony Di Meo (Windsor, Canada), Mitsuki Ota (Honolulu), Millan Patel (Macungie, Pa.), Thomas Benassi (Towson, Md.), Nicholas James Durr (Baltimore) and Allison Rosen (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartilage dicing device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes blades disposed in a housing configured to miti...