US Patent Issued to KOEDA on July 28 for "Anchor device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,873, issued on July 28, was assigned to KOEDA Inc. (Miyagi, Japan).

"Anchor device" was invented by Koichiro Miyamoto (Miyagi, Japan) and Toru Okuzono (Miyagi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anchor device configured to connect a plurality of tissues to each other, includes a shaft having a longitudinal axis; and a first anchor part and a second anchor part which are separated from each other and which are each formed in the shaft. The first anchor part includes a plurality of elongated anchor arms that are allowed to be expanded in a direction of separating from the longitudinal axis of the shaft toward the second anchor par...