US Patent Issued to Samothrace Medical Innovations on April 22 for "Anatomical tissue anchor and related methods" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,763, issued on April 22, was assigned to Samothrace Medical Innovations Inc. (Mount Pleasant, S.C.).

"Anatomical tissue anchor and related methods" was invented by John A. DeFord (Daniel Island, S.C.) and Krasnodar Ivancev (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tissue anchor includes a central body extending between a first lengthwise end and a second lengthwise end. A first arm extends outwardly from the central body, and a second arm extends outwardly from the central body and spaced from the first arm. The tissue anchor is movable between a collapsed state and a deployed state. In the collapsed state, the central body exten...