ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,289, issued on July 15, was assigned to DRS Vascular Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Suture retention device" was invented by Raj Subramaniam (Fremont, Calif.), Robert Quintos (Newark, Calif.) and Shashank Raina (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suture retention device includes a housing having one or more suture slots. The device also includes a plunger with suture slots. The plunger is slidably disposed in a channel in the housing and when the housing suture slots are aligned with the plunger suture slots, a suture filament may be disposed in the slots. When the plunger is actuated so that the housing suture slots are...