US Patent Issued to Arthrex on Sept. 15 for "Suture device" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,924, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Arthrex Inc. (Naples, Fla.).

"Suture device" was invented by David John Linden (North Yorkshire, Great Britain), Matthew John Ravenscroft (Cheshire, Great Britain) and Thomas Dooney Jr. (Naples, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suture device comprises at least one weft strand interwoven with a plurality of warp strands to define a body region. The body region has a substantially open mesh construction and at least a first elongate end region axially extending from and being one part with the body region having a substantially closed mesh construction. The width of the end region is subst...