US Patent Issued to Arthrex on Sept. 15 for "Soft surgical construct and method of use for tissue repair" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,921, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Arthrex Inc. (Naples, Fla.).

"Soft surgical construct and method of use for tissue repair" was invented by Peter J. Dreyfuss (Naples, Fla.), Andrew K. Osika (Naples, Fla.) and Julia F. Cuny (Naples, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical construct includes a loop configured to be anchored in a bone tunnel, a tail extending from the loop and configured to pull the loop into the bone tunnel, and a repair strand having a section received in the loop. The repair strand extends from the loop in a direction away from the tail and has a free end configured to engage a tissue. A method of tis...