US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on June 16 for "Suture anchor and laceration repair device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,519, issued on June 16, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Suture anchor and laceration repair device" was invented by Noriaki Yamanaka (Tokyo) and Masahiro Fujii (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suture anchor including a base, a deformable portion, and a first passage and a second passage each formed in the base to allow a suture to pass therethrough, wherein the deformable portion is a cantilever state having a fixed end, which is disposed at a side of one end of the base, and a free end, which is disposed at a side of the other end of the base relative to the fixed end and which is separated by a space from the base, a...