US Patent Issued to Biomet Sports Medicine on Nov. 18 for "Soft tissue repair device and associated methods" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,904, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Biomet Sports Medicine LLC (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Soft tissue repair device and associated methods" was invented by Kevin T. Stone (Winona Lake, Ind.), Ryan A. Kaiser (Leesburg, Ind.), Nathan M. Sautter (North Manchester, Ind.) and Andrew Holst (Warsaw, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fibrous tissue repair device includes first and second tubular anchors having corresponding longitudinal passages. The tissue repair device includes corresponding first and second inserters. Each inserter has a shaft with a distal portion received in the longitudinal passage of the corresponding tubular anchor. A ...