ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,388, issued on April 14, was assigned to Zimmer Inc. (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Bone graft delivery devices and method" was invented by Maxim Budyansky (Baltimore), Marton Varady (Farmington, Conn.), George Andrews (Farmington, Conn.), Thomas San Giovanni (Farmington, Conn.), Giselle Cabada (Farmington, Conn.) and Neil Shah (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices for delivering bone material are disclosed. The bone delivery device may include a cannula and a cartridge in fluid communication with the cannula, wherein the cartridge comprises a base containing one or more delivery channels configured to receive bone materia...