US Patent Issued to Arthrex on July 22 for "Tensionable knotless anchors and methods of tissue repair" (California, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,470, issued on July 22, was assigned to Arthrex Inc. (Naples, Fla.).

"Tensionable knotless anchors and methods of tissue repair" was invented by Peter J. Dreyfuss (Naples, Fla.) and Tal S. David (San Diego).

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 a flexible coupler (repair suture) and a plurality of shuttle/pull devices loaded onto a fixation device. The fixation device can be a knotless fixation device such as a knotless soft anchor, for example, an all-suture knotless anchor...