ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,702, issued on June 24, was assigned to WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. (Memphis, Tenn.).
"Auto-sutured allograft" was invented by Jody Claypool (Warsaw, Ind.) and Shawn E. McGinley (Arlington, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An auto-suture device includes a spiral drive mechanism having a first spiral drive tube including a cylindrical body having an internal surface defining a first travel path, a second spiral drive tube moveably coupled to the first spiral drive tube, and a first spiral drive element including a drive interface and a needle drive. The needle drive is sized and configured to be received within the first travel...