ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,792, issued on March 11.
"Cervical cerclage with surgical buttons" was invented by Leonard Cedars (Dallas) and Roman Starikov (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide a cervical cerclage apparatus and a method for performing a cervical cerclage. In an embodiment of the invention, a cervical cerclage apparatus includes, a length of suture and at least two stitched regions formed by the length of suture around an exterior surface of a cervix. The cervical cerclage apparatus further includes at least two surgical buttons attached the length of suture, each surgical button comprising an inne...