US Patent Issued to SPECTRAL-FLUSH ANCHOR SYSTEMS on Sept. 29 for "Anchor apparatus" (North Carolina, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,998, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to SPECTRAL-FLUSH ANCHOR SYSTEMS LLC (Belmont, N.C.).

"Anchor apparatus" was invented by J. Dean Cole (Orlando, Fla.), Franz W. Kellar (Gastonia, N.C.), Michael D. Bissette (Belmont, N.C.) and Harold L. Crowder (Concord, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anchor for anchoring tensile members to bone includes: a housing extending along a central axis, with a hollow interior; a collet in the hollow interior having a central bore for accepting tensile members and an exterior surface, the collet being configured to swage around and against tensile members; a sleeve having a peripheral wall defin...