US Patent Issued to Arthrex on April 15 for "Instrument for manual insertion of a button" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,434, issued on April 15, was assigned to Arthrex Inc. (Naples, Fla.).

"Instrument for manual insertion of a button" was invented by Todd Earhart (Naples, Fla.), Pete Denove (Naples, Fla.), Karen Gallen (Naples, Fla.) and Darren Thomsen (Naples, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A button inserter includes a shaft having a fulcrum that extends beyond a distal tip of the shaft. An inner rod is within the shaft and has a button mating surface that extends from a distal tip of the inner rod. A handle includes a handle switch that translates the inner rod between an extended position where the button mating surface of the inner rod extend...