US Patent Issued to In2Bones USA on July 21 for "Syndesmosis treatment construct" (Tennessee, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,524, issued on July 21, was assigned to In2Bones USA LLC (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Syndesmosis treatment construct" was invented by Alan G. Taylor (Memphis, Tenn.) and Rebecca Hawkins Wahl (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method are provided for a syndesmosis treatment construct configured to be placed into a cinched configuration that presses a first bone against a second bone. The syndesmosis treatment construct comprises a proximal fixator to contact the first bone and a distal fixator to contact the second bone. A first suture and a second suture are parallelly looped through the distal fixator. A free ...