ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,734, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to HYUNDAE MEDITECH Co. LTD. (Wonju-si, South Korea).
"Surgical thread" was invented by Mi Hee Song (Wonju-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a surgical thread including a cog thread and a mesh thread surrounding the cog thread and assembled therewith, wherein, in the mesh thread, first and second regions with different mesh shapes are repeatedly disposed in a longitudinal direction of the cog thread."
The patent was filed on Dec. 6, 2023, under Application No. 18/531,032.
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