US Patent Issued to Medos International on Feb. 18 for "Knotless suture anchoring using two awl shafts" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,092, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Medos International Sarl (Le Locle, Switzerland).

"Knotless suture anchoring using two awl shafts" was invented by Adam Gustafson (Dighton, Mass.) and Stefan Gabriel (Mattapoisett, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for securing tissue to bone. A surgical system can include a driver having a proximal handle and a driver shaft extending therefrom, a distal awl shaft, a proximal awl shaft separate from the distal awl shaft and movable with respect to the distal awl shaft, a suture anchor, and a dilator feature distal to the suture anchor. The distal and proximal...