US Patent Issued to ANIKA THERAPEUTICS on Sept. 16 for "Microfracture apparatuses and methods" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,861, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to ANIKA THERAPEUTICS INC. (Bedford, Mass.).

"Microfracture apparatuses and methods" was invented by Steven Ek (Durham, N.H.) and George Sikora (Bridgewater, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of apparatuses and methods for microfracture (e.g., forming a plurality of microfractures in a bone to encourage cartilage regeneration)."

The patent was filed on April 18, 2023, under Application No. 18/136,154.

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