US Patent Issued to Access Closure on June 17 for "Apparatus and method for sealing a vascular puncture" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,368, issued on June 17, was assigned to Access Closure Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for sealing a vascular puncture" was invented by Wesley Chung Joe (Fremont, Calif.), Sravanthi Avuthu (Portola Valley, Calif.), Curt D. Guyer (Dublin, Calif.), Richard Repp (San Jose, Calif.) and Martin Schnitzer (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Closure devices for sealing a puncture and methods of sealing a puncture are described herein. A closure device may be used to position a sealant in a puncture. The sealant may be provided in a sheath which is retracted to expose the sealant in the puncture. A support member m...