US Patent Issued to Applied Medical Resources on June 10 for "Suturing skills surgical training model" (California, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,489, issued on June 10, was assigned to Applied Medical Resources Corp. (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.).

"Suturing skills surgical training model" was invented by Gregory K. Hofstetter (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Brian Carter (Columbia, Md.) and Oscar Raygan (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical training model can have features for training surgical suturing techniques. The training model can be formed as a sheet of simulated tissue having at least one cut with markings arranged on either side of the cut. The markings can be formed of a first layer of resilient simulated tissue material havi...