ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,062, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Riverpoint Medical LLC (Portland, Ore.).
"Constructs and methods for tissue repair" was invented by Nathan Daniel Cook (Portland, Ore.), Elliot Bixby (Gladstone, Ore.) and John Thomas Ferguson (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tissue repair construct, having a repair strand, defining a lumen and having a first end defining an opening of the lumen and a second end opposed to the first end. Further, a shuttle having a loop at a first end and a pull end, opposed to the first end, is engaged through the lumen of the repair strand, entering at the opening and exiting at a broach point...