ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,838, issued on May 27, was assigned to CONMED Corp. (Utica, N.Y.).
"System and method for preparing a soft tissue graft" was invented by Andrew Kam (Odessa, Fla.) and Giuseppe Lombardo (New Port Richey, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for loading a suture construct on a soft tissue graft with a graft assembly. The graft assembly includes a suture construct having a closed end and an open end; a first tail of suture and a second tail of suture positioned adjacent to the open end; a first closed loop positioned at the closed end formed from the first and second tails of suture; a first splice formed by the first...