US Patent Issued to Medos International Sarl on Dec. 2 for "Multispan cinchable loops for knotless spanning of tissue between anchor points and tools for using the same" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,893, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Medos International Sarl (Le Loche, Switzerland).

"Multispan cinchable loops for knotless spanning of tissue between anchor points and tools for using the same" was invented by Stefan M. Gabriel (Mattapoisett, Mass.), Gerome O. Miller (Randolph, Mass.), Mehmet Ziya Sengun (Canton, Mass.), Howard Tang (Boston) and Mark Shainwald (Bridgewater, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suture construct includes a single filament of suture forming two cinchable loops from separate finger trap arrangements, with a fixed-length spanning portion extending between fixed portions of the two finger traps. A t...