US Patent Issued to Medos International on Nov. 3 for "Knotless anchor inserter tool extraction" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,575, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Medos International Sarl (Le Locle, Switzerland).

"Knotless anchor inserter tool extraction" was invented by Jordan Jacobs (Raynham, Mass.), Ravi Patel (Providence, R.I.), Mark Shainwald (Raynham, Mass.) and Timothy Reppert (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various exemplary devices, systems, and methods for knotless anchor inserter tool extraction are provided. In general, an inserter tool is configured for knotless anchor insertion in a soft tissue repair surgical procedure. The inserter tool is configured to insert an anchor into a bone of a patient to secure a soft tissue re...