US Patent Issued to Passer Stitch on Aug. 19 for "Systems, apparatus and methods for passing suture through soft tissue" (California, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,213, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Passer Stitch LLC (Henderson, Nev.).

"Systems, apparatus and methods for passing suture through soft tissue" was invented by Scott Heneveld (Whitmore, Calif.), John Valadez (Agua Dulce, Calif.), Christopher Morris (Santa Clarita, Calif.), Justin Anderson (Henderson, Nev.) and Brad Topper (Santa Clarita, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for passing suture through biological tissue. The apparatus including a jaw mechanism adapted to grasp the tissue, a needle assembly having a needle, a jaw articulation system for inducing axial articulation of the jaw mechanism, a needle articu...