ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,120, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to STRYKER Corp. (Portage, Mich.).
"Instrumentation for soft tissue reconstruction" was invented by Kyle Craig Pilgeram (San Jose, Calif.), Ran Oren (Kibbutz Gaaton, Israel), Elad Rash (Beit Lehem Haglilit, Israel) and Miguel Figueroa (Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure includes, in one embodiment, a tensioner instrument having a body having a channel and a plurality of arms projecting outward from the body, each arm including a cleat having a slot adapted to receive a suture; a base member positioned within the channel of the body; an actuating mechanism...