US Patent Issued to Medos International Sarl on July 15 for "Surgical filament snare assemblies" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,294, issued on July 15, was assigned to Medos International Sarl (Le Locle, Switzerland).

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

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 on a first portion of at least a first limb and has a second portion connected to the filament engagement feature of the anchor....