US Patent Issued to WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 20 for "Partially assembled knotless suture construct" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,873, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Partially assembled knotless suture construct" was invented by Jesse G. Moore (Germantown, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for syndesmotic repair includes forming a bone tunnel through a first bone and a second bone. A partial anchoring construct is inserted through the bone tunnel. The partial anchoring construct includes a first flexible strand defining a first adjustable loop and a first anchor coupled to a first end of the first adjustable loop. A second end of the first adjustable loop is coupled to a first pull-through strand...