US Patent Issued to Merit Medical Systems on Dec. 30 for "Methods and devices for manipulating and fastening tissue" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,007, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Merit Medical Systems Inc. (South Jordan, Utah).

"Methods and devices for manipulating and fastening tissue" was invented by Richard Romley (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Stomach tissue is manipulated and fastened with a tissue grasper and a tissue shaper to form folds in the stomach. The tissue grasper and the tissue shaper rotate and translate relative to one another. The tissue grasper has a plurality of vacuum orifices to adhere the tissue grasper to tissue."

The patent was filed on Jan. 7, 2020, under Application No. 16/736,807.

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