US Patent Issued to ACCESS CLOSURE on Oct. 7 for "Apparatus and methods for sealing a vascular puncture" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,577, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ACCESS CLOSURE INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Apparatus and methods for sealing a vascular puncture" was invented by Andy H. Uchida (Los Altos, Calif.), Anthony P. Spizuoco (San Francisco), Kevin To (San Jose, Calif.), Florencia Lim (Union City, Calif.) and Scott R Sershen (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealant is provided for sealing a puncture through tissue that includes an elongate first section including a proximal end, a distal end, and a cross-section sized for delivery into a puncture through tissue, and a second section fused to and extending from the distal end of...