US Patent Issued to CONMED on July 29 for "Securing graft tissue in a bone tunnel and implementations thereof" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,900, issued on July 29, was assigned to CONMED Corp. (Utica, N.Y.).

"Securing graft tissue in a bone tunnel and implementations thereof" was invented by Dennis McDevitt (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes embodiments of an anchor with a body configured to expand radially outwardly along its entire length. The anchor includes, but is not limited to, a cylindrical body having a longitudinal axis and an inner surface and an outer surface, the inner surface defining a central bore, the cylindrical body having a slot exposing the central bore, the slot having a helical path around the longitudinal axis,...