ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,039, issued on July 29, was assigned to Medos International Sarl (Le Locle, Switzerland).
"Systems and methods for ligament graft preparation" was invented by Scott A. Woodruff (Boston), Mehmet Z. Sengun (Canton, Mass.), Brian D. Busconi (Hopkinton, Mass.) and Dean C. Taylor (Durham, N.C.).
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 preparation system having a holder and a delivery suture assembly removably coupled thereto. The delivery suture assembly can include a spine coupled with an anch...