US Patent Issued to Arthrosurface on Oct. 21 for "Surgical fastener assemblies and methods" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,004, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Arthrosurface Inc. (Franklin, Mass.).

"Surgical fastener assemblies and methods" was invented by Nam Chao (Bedford, Mass.), Steven W. Ek (Bolton, Mass.), Chris Baker (Boston), Tim Brightman (Franklin, Mass.) and Dan LeDuc (Franklin, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure includes fasteners for coupling an implant to tissue (e.g., soft-tissue and/or bone), fabric-like implants, and assemblies with fasteners pre-loaded with implants. The present implants generally comprise at least one flexible, fibrous layer that is substantially planar in a flattened state. In some embodiments of ...