US Patent Issued to Smith & Nephew, Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics, Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific on Jan. 13 for "Methods and devices for tissue graft fixation" (New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,227, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Smith & Nephew Inc. (Memphis, Tenn.), Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AG (Zug, Switzerland) and Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Methods and devices for tissue graft fixation" was invented by Miles Malone (New Durham, N.H.), Christopher D. MacCready (Medfield, Mass.), Ali Hosseini (Quincy, Mass.), Mark Edwin Housman (North Attleboro, Mass.), Chun Liu (Brookline, Mass.), James Hunt (Hanover, Mass.), Jacob Peabody (Londonderry, N.H.), Paul McGovern (Hanson, Mass.), Han Teik Yeoh (Albany, Mass.), Paul Alexander Torrie (Marblehead, Mass.), Mason James Bettenga (Memphis, Tenn.), Anil S. Ranawat (Tenafly, N.J.), Lawrence Ferraiuolo ...