ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,107, issued on June 23, was assigned to AEVUMED INC. (Malvern, Pa.).
"Methods for attaching tissue to bone utilizing a scaffold" was invented by Miles Curtis (Philadelphia), Saif Khalil (Malvern, Pa.) and Robert P. Douglass (Bryn Mawr, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for attaching tissue to bone includes the steps of inserting a first anchor into bone, advancing a first limb of a first suture from the first anchor through the tissue and a scaffold, and advancing a second limb of the first suture from the first anchor though the tissue. Alternate methods for attaching tissue to bone are also disclosed."
The patent was fil...