US Patent Issued to Integrity Orthopaedics on June 30 for "Tensionable and lockable micro suture anchors and anchor arrays for anatomical attachment of soft tissue to bone" (Minnesota, North Carolina, Texas Inventors)

Posted On: 2026-07-16

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,456, issued on June 30, was assigned to Integrity Orthopaedics Inc. (Maple Plain, Minn.).

"Tensionable and lockable micro suture anchors and anchor arrays for anatomical attachment of soft tissue to bone" was invented by Zak Zenz-Olson (Ham Lake, Minn.), Nathaniel Van Tran (Lakeville, Minn.), Thomas A. Westling (Orono, Minn.), Howard W. Harris (Southlake, Texas), Marc Labbe (Spring, Texas) and Patrick M. Connor (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toggle-type suture anchor that incorporates individual suture tensioning and locking without knot tying. The anchor includes several exemplary designs of toggle bodies having a...

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US Patent Issued to Integrity Orthopaedics on June 30 for "Tensionable and lockable micro suture anchors and anchor arrays for anatomical attachment of soft tissue to bone" (Minnesota, North Carolina, Texas Inventors)