US Patent Issued to The Children's Medical Center on July 7 for "Methods and procedures for ligament repair" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,952, issued on July 7, was assigned to The Children's Medical Center Corp. (Boston).

"Methods and procedures for ligament repair" was invented by Martha M. Murray (Sherborn, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices for the repair of a ruptured ligament using a scaffold device are provided. Aspects of the invention may include a scaffold attached by one or more sutures to one or more anchors. In aspects of the invention, the anchors may be secured to a bone near or at the repair site."

The patent was filed on March 2, 2020, under Application No. 16/807,119.

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