US Patent Issued to Smith & Nephew, Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics, Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific on Jan. 28 for "Tendon harvesting system" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,207,808, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Smith & Nephew Inc. (Memphis, Tenn.), Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AG (Zug, Switzerland) and Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Tendon harvesting system" was invented by Paul McGovern (Hanson, Mass.), Chun Liu (Brookline, Mass.), Christopher David MacCready (Medfield, Mass.), Ali Hosseini (Quincy, Mass.), Timothy Young (Natick, Mass.) and Geoffrey Ian Karasic (Raynham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for improving graft harvesting including a blade guide (320) having a handle (370) and a guide portion with an elongate slot (330). The system may also include a first...