ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,904, issued on July 29, was assigned to Ning Fan (Qingdao, China).

"Surgical conduit anastomosis suture tensioning device" was invented by Ning Fan (Qingdao, China), Chao Yang (Qingdao, China), Jinzhen Cai (Qingdao, China), Yuan Guo (Qingdao, China), Qingguo Xu (Qingdao, China), Chuanshen Xu (Qingdao, China), Jianhong Wang (Qingdao, China), Yandong Sun (Qingdao, China), Feng Wang (Qingdao, China) and Bin Zhang (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses a surgical conduit anastomosis suture tensioning device, which comprises a tube A and a tube B, wherein the tube A is a preset tube, and the tube B is a sut...