US Patent Issued to ALTYX MEDICAL on Dec. 16 for "Tissue surface piercing system and methods" (New York, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,060, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ALTYX MEDICAL INC. (Evanston, Ill.).

"Tissue surface piercing system and methods" was invented by Douglas Scherr (Scarsdale, N.Y.), Roger Goldberg (Evanston, Ill.) and Ghazaleh Rostami Nia (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, including a needle guide defining a path of travel of a needle inserted through the guide, and a tissue manipulator configured to approximate tissue and said needle guide and to position at least a portion of the tissue in the path of travel of the needle, and wherein the tissue manipulator and the needle guide are alignable such that the path of travel crosse...