US Patent Issued to ARTHREX on Jan. 13 for "Knotless all-inside suture constructs and methods of tissue fixation" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,110, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ARTHREX INC. (Naples, Fla.).

"Knotless all-inside suture constructs and methods of tissue fixation" was invented by Samuel Bachmaier (Mauern, Germany), Raphael Hahn (Munich) and Dominik Steffens (Olching, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Knotless, all inside self-locking constructs and methods of tissue repairs are disclosed herein. A flexible strand can be passed through a friction-based locking mechanism to create a plurality of closed, knotless, continuous, adjustable, flexible loops having adjustable perimeters, the loops being located between a loop interconnection and two terminal e...