US Patent Issued to Smith & Nephew, Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics, Smith & Nepew Asia Pacific on March 25 for "Tendon harvesting assemblies and methods" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,912, issued on March 25, was assigned to Smith & Nephew Inc. (Memphis, Tenn.), Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AG (Zug, Switzerland) and Smith & Nepew Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Tendon harvesting assemblies and methods" was invented by Geoffrey Ian Karasic (Raynham, Mass.), Ali Hosseini (Quincy, Mass.), Christopher David MacCready (Medfield, Mass.), Chun Liu (Brookline, Mass.), James Hunt (Hanover, Mass.), Matthew Edwin Koski (Westford, Mass.), Paul McGovern (Hanson, Mass.) and Jacob Peabody (Londonderry, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A harvesting assembly for harvesting a tissue graft from surrounding tissue is disclose...