US Patent Issued to AVENU MEDICAL on July 15 for "Systems and methods for percutaneously placing biologic grafts at a procedural site" (Virginia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,445, issued on July 15, was assigned to AVENU MEDICAL INC. (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for percutaneously placing biologic grafts at a procedural site" was invented by Jeffrey E. Hull (Midlothian, Va.), Justin K. Mann (Dana Point, Calif.) and Mark A. Ritchart (Dana Point, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter having opposed tissue contacting surfaces for creating an anastomosis between two blood vessels is utilized to facilitate a method for percutaneously placing a biologic graft at a procedural site. The method may comprise steps of advancing a biologic graft over a guidewire into a blood vessel a...