ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,871, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Biomet Sports Medicine LLC (Warsaw, Ind.).
"Method for tissue fixation" was invented by Kevin T. Stone (Winona Lake, Ind.), Gregory J. Denham (Warsaw, Ind.) and Ryan Harper (Warsaw, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for securing a strand to a fixation member for arthroscopic fixation, wherein the fixation member includes a channel on an exterior surface and an aperture therethrough. The method includes passing a strand having first and second ends through a flexible sleeve, passing the sleeve through the aperture of the fixation member in a first direction, tensioning the strand, and...