US Patent Issued to Integrity Orthopaedics on Aug. 26 for "Method and apparatus for creating a seam-like anatomical low creep attachment of soft tissue to bone" (North Carolina, Minnesota, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,839, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Integrity Orthopaedics Inc. (Maple Plain, Minn.).

"Method and apparatus for creating a seam-like anatomical low creep attachment of soft tissue to bone" was invented by Patrick M. Connor (Charlotte, N.C.), Howard W. Harris (Southlake, Texas), Marc Labbe (Spring, Texas), Thomas A. Westling (Orono, Minn.), Zak Zenz-Olson (Ham Lake, Minn.), Nathaniel Van Tran (Lakeville, Minn.) and David M. Crompton (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for creating a seam like array of suture stitches joined in series by sequential anchors in bone. The anchors are transtendon impla...