US Patent Issued to WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY on Feb. 24 for "Augmented suture construct for syndesmotic stabilization" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,086, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Augmented suture construct for syndesmotic stabilization" was invented by Jesse G. Moore (Germantown, Tenn.), Bryan D. Den Hartog (St. Paul, Minn.), Gregory C. Berlet (Westerville, Ohio), Murray John Penner (Vancouver, Canada) and Bruce E. Cohen (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes forming a bone tunnel through a first bone and a second bone and inserting a flexible construct through the bone tunnel. The flexible construct includes a first anchoring element and a second anchoring element coupled by at least one flexi...