US Patent Issued to ARTHREX on Oct. 6 for "Variable density soft anchors and methods of tissue repairs" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,711, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to ARTHREX INC. (Naples, Fla.).

"Variable density soft anchors and methods of tissue repairs" was invented by Thomas Dooney Jr. (Naples, Fla.), Nirav Patel (Naples, Fla.), Michael Schmidt (Naples, Fla.), Shaun G. Leblanc (Naples, Fla.) and Matthew Herrington (Naples, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical anchor constructs, fixation devices, and methods of manufacturing, as well as methods for tissue repairs are disclosed. A soft suture anchor has a sheath with varying densities along the length of the sheath. The anchor sheath can have different segments with different densities which can be ...