US Patent Issued to Biomet Sports Medicine on March 18 for "Method and apparatus for coupling soft tissue to a bone" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,093, issued on March 18, was assigned to Biomet Sports Medicine LLC (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Method and apparatus for coupling soft tissue to a bone" was invented by Ryan A. Kaiser (Leesburg, Ind.), Gregory J. Denham (Warsaw, Ind.) and Kevin T. Stone (Winona Lake, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for coupling a soft tissue implant into a locking cavity formed within a bone is disclosed. The apparatus includes a member to pull the soft tissue implant into a femoral tunnel. The member includes a suture having first and second ends which are passed through first and second openings associated with the longitudinal pas...