ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,226, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ARTHREX INC. (Naples, Fla.).

"Surgical fixation systems and associated methods for performing tissue repairs" was invented by Samuel Bachmaier (Mauern, Germany), Dominik Steffens (Munich) and Raphael Hahn (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to surgical fixation systems and methods. The surgical fixation systems may include one or more loops and one or more reinforcement materials. The surgical fixation systems can be used in various knotless tissue repair procedures."

The patent was filed on Oct. 22, 2019, under Application No. 17/287,690.

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