US Patent Issued to Riverpoint Medical on Dec. 30 for "Method of forming a suture-button-graft combination and facilitating construct" (Oregon, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,122, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Riverpoint Medical LLC (Portland, Ore.).

"Method of forming a suture-button-graft combination and facilitating construct" was invented by Nathan Daniel Cook (Portland, Ore.), John Thomas Ferguson (Portland, Ore.), Edwin Anderson (Ridgefield, Wash.) and Elliot Bixby (Gladstone, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of constructing a button, suture, and tendon graft combination, utilizing a tendon graft, a holder and a construct engaged to the holder. The construct has an oblong button defining at least a first aperture and a second aperture; a suture assembly, engaged to the button and de...