US Patent Issued to Tack Surgical on Dec. 16 for "Suture materials, suture placement devices and methods of suture placement and tissue approximation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,057, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Tack Surgical LLC (Solona Beach, Calif.).

"Suture materials, suture placement devices and methods of suture placement and tissue approximation" was invented by Charles P. Chalekson (Templeton, Calif.), David G. Matsuura (Solana Beach, Calif.), Philip J. Simpson (Solana Beach, Calif.) and Nelson Siu (Encinitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention includes a suture adapted to be anchored into tissue, the suture comprising a length of an elongate flexible suture material and a plurality of barbed anchor articles slidingly disposed along a length of the suture material. The ...