ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,202, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Biomet Manufacturing LLC (Warsaw, Ind.).
"Knotless bone anchor system and method" was invented by Christopher M. Palese (Warsaw, Ind.) and Nathan A. Winslow (Scottsdale, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of soft tissue repair comprises attaching at least one suture to a soft tissue to be affixed to a bone structure, positioning a tissue anchor on a driver, positioning a cinching suture alongside the driver, engaging a catch of the cinching suture with a stop of the driver, capturing the at least one suture attached to the soft tissue in a loop of the cinching suture positioned proxi...