ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,972, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Responsive Arthroscopy Inc. (Minneapolis).
"All-suture anchor" was invented by Jacob Hustedt (Sandy, Utah) and Kimberly Bahoora (Medina, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are suturing systems, methods of anchoring to a bone, methods for anchoring a soft tissue to a bone, and methods of anchoring a first soft tissue portion to a second soft tissue portion. An exemplary suturing system includes an anchor and a suture inserter device. The anchor includes a plurality of anchor inserts coupled to a portion of the suture between a first end and second end of the anchor. The anchor ha...