US Patent Issued to Biomet Sports Medicine on March 4 for "Anchoring system and method for securing a suture to a pre-drilled bore" (Indiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,308, issued on March 4, was assigned to Biomet Sports Medicine LLC (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Anchoring system and method for securing a suture to a pre-drilled bore" was invented by Christopher M. Palese (Warsaw, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anchoring system (11) including a suture anchor (10) and an implant delivery device (22) is disclosed. The suture anchor (10) includes an anchor body (12) and a distal member (14) that is rotatable relative to the anchor body (12) about a longitudinal suture anchor axis. The distal member (14) has an aperture (15) that traverses the distal member (14) and includes a slot (56) and an eyelet (16),...