ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,547, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Field Orthopaedics PTY Ltd (Queensland, Australia).
"Surgical implant assembly" was invented by Greg Couzens (Queensland, Australia), Kau Shean Liang (Queensland, Australia) and Michael Maurer (Queensland, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical implant assembly comprising: first and second anchor bodies adapted to engage respective metacarpal bone surfaces of first and second metacarpal bones, a primary suture having a suture length extending between first and second terminal segments of the primary suture, the suture length of the primary suture comprising a first suture segment t...