US Patent Issued to ARTERICA on Dec. 30 for "Vascular closure device" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,011, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ARTERICA INC. (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

"Vascular closure device" was invented by Thomas Larzon (Lidingo, Sweden), Robert G. Whirley (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Daniel Karlsson (Torslanda, Sweden), Henrik Nyman (Olofstorp, Sweden), Joseph Humphrey (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Cecilia Larzon (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a vascular closure device adapted for use in closing a puncture in a blood vessel after e.g. a percutaneous interventional procedure. The disclosure also relates to a method for vascular closure using such a vascular closure device."

The patent w...