US Patent Issued to Biomet Sports Medicine on Sept. 23 for "Method and apparatus for coupling anatomical features" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,632, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Biomet Sports Medicine LLC (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Method and apparatus for coupling anatomical features" was invented by 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 of coupling a first portion of an anatomy to a second portion of the anatomy includes coupling first and second bones of the anatomy with a bone-tendon-bone implant. The bone-tendon-bone implant has a first bone end, a second bone end and a replacement tendon between the first and second bone ends. The first and second bone ends are positioned in corresponding first and ...