US Patent Issued to Smith & Nephew, Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics, Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific on March 25 for "System and method for transporting suture" (American, Swiss, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,922, issued on March 25, was assigned to Smith & Nephew Inc. (Memphis, Tenn.), Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AG (Zug, Switzerland) and Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte Ltd. (Singapore).

"System and method for transporting suture" was invented by Mason Bettenga (Memphis, Tenn.), Dirk Wunderle (Zurich), Alexander Iwan Seidl (Zurich), Pascal Boileau (Nice, France) and John Albert Slusarz Jr. (Mansfield, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suture transport system is disclosure for placing a flexible member along a tunnel, the system including a means of transporting a flexible member along a tunnel from a first opening in the tunnel thr...