US Patent Issued to Biomet Sports Medicine on Feb. 17 for "Method and apparatus for coupling soft tissue to a bone" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,209, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Biomet Sports Medicine LLC (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Method and apparatus for coupling soft tissue to a bone" was invented by Kevin T. Stone (Winona Lake, Ind.), Gregory J. Denham (Warsaw, Ind.), Ryan Harper (Warsaw, Ind.) and Ryan A. Kaiser (Leesburg, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for surgically repairing a tear in soft tissue is disclosed. A plurality of collapsible tubes are positioned about the suture. The collapsible tubes are pushed through soft tissue and orthopedic mesh on opposite sides of a tear in soft tissue. When tension is applied to the suture, the tubes are c...