US Patent Issued to Smith & Nephew, Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics, Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific on July 21 for "System and method for harvesting a tendon" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,555, issued on July 21, was assigned to Smith & Nephew Inc. (Memphis, Tenn.), Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AG (Zug, Switzerland) and Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"System and method for harvesting a tendon" was invented by Rick Fu (Randolph, Mass.), Christopher David MacCready (Medfield, Mass.), Geoffrey Ian Karasic (Raynham, Mass.), Carrie Deborah Burgess (Jamaica Plain, Mass.), Belin Mirabile (Brookline, Mass.), Bernard Kilroy (Norwell, Mass.), Francheska Torres (Charlton, Mass.), Gregory Gorham (Billerica, Mass.) and Miles Malone (Alameda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for harvesting a tendon g...