US Patent Issued to Integrity Orthopaedics on Oct. 28 for "Tensionable and lockable soft suture anchors and anchor arrays for anatomical attachment of soft tissue to bone" (Minnesota, North Carolina, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,545, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Integrity Orthopaedics Inc. (Maple Plain, Minn.).

"Tensionable and lockable soft suture anchors and anchor arrays for anatomical attachment of soft tissue to bone" was invented by Zak Zenz-Olson (Ham Lake, Minn.), Nathaniel Van Tran (Lakeville, Minn.), Thomas A. Westling (Orono, Minn.), Howard W. Harris (Southlake, Texas), David M. Crompton (St. Paul, Minn.) and Patrick M. Connor (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Soft suture anchors are disclosed that can be formed into a pre-strung array with a common working suture. Each anchor includes the common working suture and a soft ancho...