US Patent Issued to PMSW RESEARCH on May 6 for "Surgical filament securement assemblies and procedures" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,432, issued on May 6, was assigned to PMSW RESEARCH PTY LTD (Bellevue Hill, Australia).

"Surgical filament securement assemblies and procedures" was invented by Peter Walker (Bellevue Hill, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical filament securement assembly has an anchor having a channel therethrough through which a surgical filament is passed. The surgical filament is tied to form a dilated knot having at least one throw around a dilater member at an entrance of the channel such that the surgical filament is able to run around the dilater member when a limb thereof is pulled in a first direction through the channel whil...