ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,216, issued on June 23, was assigned to DePuy Synthes Products Inc. (Raynham, Mass.).
"Femoral fixation" was invented by Charles Beck Jr. (Holladay, Utah) and Jose E. Lizardi (Walpole, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various methods and devices are provided for a graft fixation device for fixing a graft member within a bone tunnel. In one embodiment, a graft fixation device is provided having a radially expandable sheath adapted to be disposed within a bone tunnel, and a sheath expander adapted to be received within the radially expandable sheath to expand the sheath and thereby anchor a graft between the sheath and the bone tun...