US Patent Issued to Absolutions Med on Nov. 11 for "Abdominal closure method and device variations for closing ventral hernias and reducing recurrence" (Georgia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,476, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Absolutions Med Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Abdominal closure method and device variations for closing ventral hernias and reducing recurrence" was invented by Gregory Lamps (Smyrna, Ga.), Daniel Jacobs (Mountain View, Calif.), Matthew Luis Rivera (Roswell, Ga.) and Brad Richardson (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combined magnetic and bioabsorbable device for ventral hernia closure and/or tension distribution for maintenance of tissue apposition for healing, while avoiding a long-term footprint of foreign material and precluding materials spanning the interior layer o...