US Patent Issued to SMITH & NEPHEW, SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS, SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC on Oct. 7 for "Depth penetration limiter for a tissue repair device" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,582, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SMITH & NEPHEW INC. (Memphis, Tenn.), SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS AG (Zug, Switzerland) and SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC PTE. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Depth penetration limiter for a tissue repair device" was invented by Han Teik Yeoh (Hopkinton, Mass.), Matthew D. Cunningham (Lakeville, Mass.), Geoffrey Ian Karasic (Milton, Mass.) and Rick Fu (Randolph, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Depth penetration limiters for use with meniscal repair devices which have a built-in, self-stopper feature to prevent the limiter from disengaging from the device housing. The self-stopper feature is a cantilevered ...