ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,247, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Abbott Vascular Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Closure devices and methods" was invented by Marc G. Gianotti (Wiesendangen, Switzerland) and Aaron M. Fortson (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for closing a puncture in tissue that includes advancing a guide member into proximity with the tissue, the guide member having a needle guide, positioning a distal end of the guide member with the needle guide toward the tissue to present an opening of the needle guide toward the tissue the needle guide cooperating with a suture securing device that is slidably coupled to the guide me...