ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,349, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Conmed Corp. (Utica, N.Y.).
"Ligament revision system" was invented by Adam Kohler (Iowa City, Iowa), Andrew Kam (Odessa, Fla.), Brian R. Wolf (Iowa City, Iowa), Philip Lahey (Greenville, Wis.) and Danielle L. Whitlock (Barcelona, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and system for inserting and impacting bone dowel allografts or bone chips into a bone tunnel. The surgical impacting system includes a surgical tamp having a proximal end and a distal end with an elongated shaft extending therebetween. The surgical tamp has an inner channel extending therethrough from the proximal end to ...