ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,807, issued on April 22, was assigned to M. I. Advanced Thermosurgery Inc. (Hanover, N.H.).

"Anastomosis device and method" was invented by Csaba Truckai (Saratoga, Calif.), Gergo Csikos (Budapest, Hungary), Viktor Mayer (Dunaharaszti, Hungary) and Kornel Horvath (Budaors, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and surgical devices for performing an anastomosis of a living tissue. More particularly the methods and devices relate to anastomosis of tissue performed through tissue fusion performed by delivering energy to the tissue."

The patent was filed on July 11, 2023, under Application No. 18/350,622.

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