US Patent Issued to Arthrex on July 15 for "Tensionable knotless anchors and methods of tissue repair" (Illinois, Virginia, Michigan, Florida, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,448, issued on July 15, was assigned to Arthrex Inc. (Naples, Fla.).

"Tensionable knotless anchors and methods of tissue repair" was invented by Nikhil N. Verma (Chicago), Justin W. Griffin (Virginia Beach, Va.), Michael J. Huang (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Asheesh Bedi (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Andrew C. Petry (Naples, Fla.) and Peter J. Dreyfuss (Naples, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tensionable, knotless, self-locking surgical constructs and methods for surgical repairs are disclosed. A tensionable, knotless, self-locking surgical construct includes two self-locking, tensionable, knotless independent mechanisms loaded onto a fixati...