ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,720, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Howmedica Osteonics Corp. (Mahwah, N.J.).
"Systems for soft tissue repair" was invented by William Thomas Kelly (White Plains, N.Y.) and Manoj Kumar Singh (Mahwah, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tissue repair apparatus includes a housing, a rotatable shaft at least partially disposed within the housing, and first and second curved needles coupled to the shaft. The housing defines a gap between a first edge of the housing and a second edge of the housing, the gap adapted to receive tissue. The first and second needles curved needles being articulable within the housing from a delivery pos...