ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,917, issued on July 29, was assigned to Dignity Health (San Francisco).
"Systems and methods for multi-way anastomotic coupling" was invented by Tyler Cole (San Francisco) and Dakota Graham (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The multi-way coupler ring assembly is configured to couple a first end of a receiving vessel with a second end of the receiving vessel, and is further configured to couple a donor vessel to the first and second ends of the receiving vessel in a three-way junction. The multi-way coupler ring assembly includes a first receiving coupler ring configured to receive a first receiving vessel and a second rec...