ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,911, issued on July 8, was assigned to Opus KSD Inc. (Pembroke, Mass.).
"Devices for deploying tissue fasteners" was invented by Charles H. Rogers (Halifax, Mass.), Eduard Ulise Milea (Irvine, Calif.), Robert F. Hatch (Pembroke, Mass.), Karl Robert Leinsing (Dover, N.H.) and Joseph Mark Durant (Dover, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a hand-held surgical device, operable by a single user, for deploying fasteners to close a wound or incision in tissue. The device includes tissue pinching and folding members operably controlled by the user during actuation of a trigger of the device, which can tem...