US Patent Issued to Cayenne Medical on July 15 for "Systems and methods for repairing soft tissues using nanofiber material" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,296, issued on July 15, was assigned to Cayenne Medical Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for repairing soft tissues using nanofiber material" was invented by Kevin N. Baird (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Derek J. Harper (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Kevin S. Nason (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anchoring system is a combination of a nanofiber scaffold material and an arthroscopically deployable suture anchor. The anchor is deployed into a bone tunnel using common techniques. The nanofiber material extends out of the proximal end of the implant, once deployed. The implant also includes pre-loaded sutures or has the a...