US Patent Issued to Conmed on May 13 for "Self-drilling anchor inserter" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,564, issued on May 13, was assigned to Conmed Corp. (Utica, N.Y.).

"Self-drilling anchor inserter" was invented by Grady Breslich (Saint Petersburg, Fla.), Peter Miller (Largo, Fla.), James M. Barber (Largo, Fla.) and Bennie Wayne Gladdish Jr. (Odessa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anchor inserter including an inserter tube extending along a longitudinal axis having a proximal inserter end and a distal inserter end. The inserter also includes an inserter tip attached to and extending distally from the distal inserter end. The inserter tip has a proximal tip end and a distal tip end with a suture anchor retention slot extendi...