US Patent Issued to CONMED on Aug. 11 for "Implant and suture organization device" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,406, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to CONMED Corp. (Utica, N.Y.).

"Implant and suture organization device" was invented by Andrew Kam (Odessa, Fla.) and Andrew Draybuck (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An organization device for maintaining a suspensory graft fixation device (i.e., an implant and suture) in a desired position. The device includes a substrate having top and bottom edges with first and second panels extending therebetween. The device also includes a first central longitudinal axis extending in a direction from the top edge to the bottom edge between the first and second panels. The first and second panels ...