US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Sept. 30 for "Systems, devices and methods for implanting suture buttons" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,871, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Systems, devices and methods for implanting suture buttons" was invented by Peter Evans (Lafayette Hill, Pa.), David Laird Sr. (Brandamore, Pa.), Megan Duman (Horsham, Pa.), Peter M. Govey (Ardmore, Pa.), Michelle Gray (Oley, Pa.), Bradford H. Rippe (Media, Pa.), Donald Anding (Philadelphia), Blaize Majdic (King of Prussia, Pa.) and Anthony Nicaretta (Glenside, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suture button system for fixing a syndesmotic injury comprises a flexible fixation implant and an inserter device used to deploy the implant across bones. The fl...