US Patent Issued to CorIT Medical on June 3 for "Apparatus and methods for tissue reduction" (Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,109, issued on June 3, was assigned to CorIT Medical LLC (Mclean, Va.).

"Apparatus and methods for tissue reduction" was invented by Iyad Saidi (Dunn Loring, Va.), Cameron Loper (Falls Church, Va.), Charles M. Huck (Somerville, N.J.), Ryan Mazurick (Alexandria, Va.) and Jonathan Whitcraft (Lancaster, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for tissue reduction are described where one embodiment of the tissue resection device may generally comprise an external clamping mechanism having at least two distally extending members shaped with an atraumatic distal end and defining a confined region between the distally extend...