US Patent Issued to Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children on July 21 for "Externally magnetically operated suture anchor" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,525, issued on July 21, was assigned to Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children (Dallas).

"Externally magnetically operated suture anchor" was invented by Philip L. Wilson (Pilot Point, Texas), Henry Ellis (Frisco, Texas) and Brad Anthony Niese (Southlake, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are compositions and methods including a magnetically actuated suture anchor including an anchor magnet configured to be magnetically moved using an external magnet from a first position to a second position, wherein in the first position, a tension is maintained in a suture connected to the magnetically actuated suture anchor ...