ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,573, issued on May 27, was assigned to Medos International Sarl (Le Locle, Switzerland).

"Systems, devices, and methods for securing tissue using snare assemblies and soft anchors" 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. One exemplary embodiment of a surgical soft tissue repair device includes a snare assembly coupled to a soft anchor in which the soft anchor has a first, unstressed configuration that can be used to insert the anchor into bone and a second, anchoring configuration that can be used to fixate the anchor...