US Patent Issued to Integrity Medical Services on April 15 for "System and method for creating graft tunnels in bone" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,454, issued on April 15, was assigned to Integrity Medical Services Inc. (Yorba Linda, Calif.).

"System and method for creating graft tunnels in bone" was invented by Nirav H. Amin (Yorba Linda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices for consistently and accurately controlling the depth of the graft tunnel. A sheath is inserted into the bone until a stop member on the sheath contacts the bone. A cutting member is then deployed to drill a larger bore in the tunnel until making contact with the distal end of the sheath. The cutting member may be drawn retrograde within the tunnel, or driven antegrade from an opening o...