US Patent Issued to RAMBAM MEDTECH on Jan. 27 for "Methods of using needle guide tools for placing sutures in eye tissue" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,123, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to RAMBAM MEDTECH LTD. (Haifa, Israel).

"Methods of using needle guide tools for placing sutures in eye tissue" was invented by Yonina Ron (Habonim, Israel) and Roei Sandovsky (Moshav Ein Ayala, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for passing a needle and a suture coupled thereto through tissue of a portion of an eye. A needle guide of a needle guide tool is positioned such that a needle-guide surface of the needle guide contacts a body-portion surface of the eye portion, while a proximal needle holder of the needle guide tool holds the needle such that a longitudinal segmen...