US Patent Issued to Howmedica Osteonics on Sept. 23 for "Flexible ACL instrumentation, kit and method" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,655, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Howmedica Osteonics Corp. (Mahwah, N.J.).

"Flexible ACL instrumentation, kit and method" was invented by Mark Steiner (Wellesley, Mass.), Kyle Craig Pilgeram (San Jose, Calif.), Raymond West (Marlborough, Mass.), Jeffrey Wyman (Naples, Fla.), Matthew Hemstreet (Denver), Ran Oren (Kibbutz Gaaton, Israel), Eran Zakai (Misgav, Israel) and Elad Rash (Beit Lehem Haglilit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a first embodiment, the present invention includes an instrumentation system for preparing a bone for soft tissue repair, the instrumentation system including a flexible drill pin capable ...