ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,260, issued on May 6, was assigned to KitoTech Medical Inc. (Seattle).
"Force modulating deep skin staples and instruments" was invented by Ronald J. Berenson (Seattle) and Cheuk Yin Paul Leung (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wound closure device in the form of a force modulating deep skin staple. The deep skin staple includes a bridge portion extending along a longitudinal axis to support a first set of staple legs and an opposing second set of staple legs. Each staple leg coupled to the bridge portion via a spring arm. Each staple leg angled towards a middle section of the bridge portion. The staple legs designed ...