US Patent Issued to ARTHREX on Jan. 27 for "Reinforced anchors and methods of tissue repair" (Florida, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,119, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ARTHREX INC. (Naples, Fla.).

"Reinforced anchors and methods of tissue repair" was invented by Shaun G. Leblanc (Naples, Fla.), Jason A. Valentin (Fort Myers, Fla.), Thomas Dooney Jr. (Naples, Fla.), Matthew Herrington (Naples, Fla.) and Kyle Anderson (Detroit).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reinforced surgical constructs and methods of reinforced anchor fixation in bone, as well as associated surgical repairs are disclosed. A reinforcement (anchoring device) is loaded onto a fixation device. The fixation device can be a knotless fixation device such as a hard-body anchor, or a knotless soft anc...