US Patent Issued to Medos International on June 17 for "Surgical filament snare assemblies" (Massachusetts, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,371, issued on June 17, was assigned to Medos International Sarl (Le Locle, Switzerland).

"Surgical filament snare assemblies" was invented by Mehmet Ziya Sengun (Canton, Mass.), Howard Tang (Boston), David B. Spenciner (North Attleboro, Mass.), Gregory R. Whittaker (Stoneham, Mass.), Gerome Miller (Randolph, Mass.), Joseph Hernandez (Rutland, Mass.) and Robert Stefani (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical filament snare assembly including an anchor capable of being fixated in bone and having a filament engagement feature. A first filament has a noose with first and second noose limbs connected, preferably slidably conn...