US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on Oct. 28 for "Systems and methods for ankle syndesmosis repair" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,544, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Systems and methods for ankle syndesmosis repair" was invented by Christopher W. Digiovanni (Waltham, Mass.), Ali Hosseini (Waltham, Mass.), Daniel Guss (Waltham, Mass.), Anne Holly Johnson (Boston), George Alex (Boston) and Bart Lubberts (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ankle syndesmosis repair system is designed to stabilize the ankle syndesmosis to allow for the repair of the ankle syndesmosis. The system provides multi-level, multi-directional stabilization of the ankle joint, while providing a sufficient amount of flexibility to the ankle join...