US Patent Issued to Medos International on July 8 for "Knotless anchor insertion" (Massachusetts, California, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,895, issued on July 8, was assigned to Medos International Sarl (Le Locle, Switzerland).

"Knotless anchor insertion" was invented by Ravi Patel (Providence, R.I.), Daniel Gamache (Dedham, Mass.), Brian H. Otrando (Raynham, Mass.), Timothy Reppert (Foster City, Calif.), Mark Shainwald (Raynham, Mass.) and Jordan Jacobs (Raynham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and devices for knotless anchor insertion and methods of knotless anchor insertion are provided. An inserter tool is configured for knotless anchor insertion in a soft tissue repair surgical procedure. The inserter tool is configured to insert an anchor into ...