ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,059, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Sanusi Umar (Manhattan Beach, Calif.).
"Retention suture assembly" was invented by Sanusi Umar (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) and Andrew Namminga (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to devices that join a pair of edges. Previously, suture assemblies used holes perpendicular to a vertical plane. Embodiments of the present invention use a first pad tunnel (130) between a first pad lower plane opening (126) and a first pad upper plane opening (122). A first pad tunnel major axis (132) passes through a first pad upper plane opening center (124) and a first pad lower plan...