US Patent Issued to CONMED on March 11 for "Multi-barrel drill guide and anchor deployment assembly" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,780, issued on March 11, was assigned to CONMED Corp. (Largo, Fla.).

"Multi-barrel drill guide and anchor deployment assembly" was invented by Robert A. Thibodeau (St. Petersburg, Fla.), Gregory A. Alfonso (Tampa, Fla.), Matthew C. Summitt (Palm Harbor, Fla.) and Robert A. Rofman (St. Petersburg, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-barrel drill guide and anchor deployment assembly configured to simultaneously accommodate both a drill bit and a driver with a suture anchor. Such a structural configuration allows for the suture anchor to be in position with the anchor driver in a separate but converging pathway/channel in the d...