ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,286, issued on July 14, was assigned to Warsaw Orthopedic Inc. (Warsaw, Ind.).

"Implantable compositions having fibers and methods of making and using them" was invented by Daniel A. Shimko (Germantown, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable composition, method of making and using the implantable composition is provided. The implantable composition comprising a first set of fibers and a second set of fibers, the first set of fibers manufactured to have a first binding surface, the second set of fibers manufactured to have a second binding surface, the first binding surface of the first set of fibers configured to bind at...