US Patent Issued to ARTHREX on Aug. 26 for "Methods of making reinforced soft tissue grafts with suture loop/needle constructs" (Florida, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,717, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to ARTHREX INC. (Naples, Fla.).

"Methods of making reinforced soft tissue grafts with suture loop/needle constructs" was invented by James J. Guerra (Naples, Fla.), Jacob A. Jolly (Naples, Fla.), Dustin T. Libby (Naples, Fla.) and Thomas M. DeBerardino (Avon, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of reinforcing a biological construct according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, attaching a suture loop/needle construct to a reinforcement material and stitching the reinforcement material to a biological construct to form a reinforced biological con...