US Patent Issued to Medos International on Feb. 18 for "Methods and devices for knotless suture anchoring" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,091, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Medos International Sarl (Le Locle, Switzerland).

"Methods and devices for knotless suture anchoring" 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 device, an elongate shaft receivable within the driver device and having a dilator feature at its distal end, and a capture suture extending through the shaft such that the capture suture's terminal end portions extend to a more proximal position on the driver and the capture su...