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Tensioning Tool for Flexible Materials Background This tool can securely hold flexible materials, like tendons or ligaments, under accurate tension while affixing the material. Technology Description Engineers or surgeons often need to mount a flexible length of material on a surface. Flexible lengths of material can include wires, cables, ropes,...

Published: 3/23/2026 | Updated: 3/23/2026 | Inventor(s): Ravi Balasubramanian, Benjamin Phelps, Hantao Ling, Justin Casebier

Keywords(s): Biomechanics, Biotechnology, tendon, tension

Category(s): Engineering, Medical Devices

Engineering Mechanisms to Connect One Muscle to Multiple Tendons in Surgery

Technology Description This technology is a new tendon-transfer surgical procedure that uses an implanted passive engineering mechanism for attaching multiple tendons to a single donor muscle. This improves hand function in physical interaction tasks such as grasping over the conventional method of directly suturing multiple tendons to a single muscle.Features...

Published: 1/22/2026 | Updated: 5/24/2016 | Inventor(s): Ravi Balasubramanian, Taymaz Homayouni

Keywords(s): Biomedical, Materials Science, Medical Science & Technologies, Veterinary Science & Technologies

Category(s): Medical Devices, Engineering, Device, Therapeutics