US Patent Issued to Medos International on Dec. 30 for "Anchors and anchoring systems" (Virginia, Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,014, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Medos International Sarl (Le Locle, Switzerland).

"Anchors and anchoring systems" was invented by Adam Gustafson (Rehoboth, Mass.), Kevin F. Bonner (Virginia Beach, Va.), Mark H. Getelman (Tarzana, Calif.) and David R. Diduch (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Anchors for anchoring soft tissue to bone are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, an anchor can include a non-threaded, asymmetric anchor body having a distal nose and a spine extending proximally from one side of the distal nose, and a deflectable clip extending proximally from a side of the nose opposite the spine. ...