US Patent Issued to CLEMSON UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION on Oct. 21 for "Annulus repair devices, systems, and methods" (Georgia, Minnesota, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,022, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to CLEMSON UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Clemson, S.C.).

"Annulus repair devices, systems, and methods" was invented by Jeremy J. Mercuri (Piedmont, S.C.), Richard diMonda (Marietta, Ga.), Matt Pursley (Dawsonville, Ga.) and Ishmael Bentley (Edina, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Integratable treatment devices, assemblies including a treatment device, at least one anchor, and a tether coupled thereto, and various methods and devices for inserting such devices and assemblies are disclosed herein. The treatment devices can be made of an integratable material that is not fully bioresorbable bu...