US Patent Issued to ARTHREX on Jan. 13 for "System for meniscal repair using suture implant cinch construct" (Florida, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,105, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ARTHREX INC. (Naples, Fla.).

"System for meniscal repair using suture implant cinch construct" was invented by David C. Koogle Jr. (Bonita Springs, Fla.), Ricardo Albertorio (Naples, Fla.), Jacob A. Jolly (Naples, Fla.) and Vipool K. Goradia (Midlothian, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for repairing tears in soft tissue, e.g., meniscal tissue, by employing cinch stitching. More specifically, the present invention provides an apparatus for meniscal repair using a suture implant construct. The suture implant construct includes a first and second implant which are connected to each oth...