ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,284, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Arthrex Inc. (Naples, Fla.).
"Interactive tendon repair guide system" was invented by Laurence D. Higgins (Naples, Fla.), Oliver Hauck (Munich), Coen Wijdicks (Naples, Fla.) and Christopher Adams (Naples, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for interactively visualizing different options for tendon repair for a surgeon and for informing the surgeon in a descriptive way of the different options is disclosed. The system may be configured to determine the size of a damaged tendon and propose solutions consisting of the anchor types, number of anchors and a free tendon-to-bone healing area...