US Patent Issued to Medos International on June 24 for "Systems, devices, and methods for securing tissue" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,700, issued on June 24, was assigned to Medos International Sarl (Le Locle, Switzerland).

"Systems, devices, and methods for securing tissue" was invented by Mehmet Ziya Sengun (Canton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods are provided for securing soft tissue to bone, for securing one or more objects using a surgical filament, and for drawing two or more tissues together so they can be secured in a desired location. One exemplary embodiment of a surgical repair construct that is configured to atraumatically pass through soft tissue to secure tissue in a knotless manner includes a snare linkage, a collap...