ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,038, issued on July 29, was assigned to Medos International Sarl (Le Locle, Switzerland).
"Graft preparation system" was invented by Adam Gustafson (Dighton, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for preparing a ligament graft for a ligament reconstruction procedure are provided. In general, the described techniques utilize a graft holder construct having a graft preparation holder and a suture assembly removably coupled thereto. The graft preparation holder includes an elongate support rail having a longitudinal axis, and a plurality of leaf segments positioned along the longitudinal axis in a spaced relationship ...