US Patent Issued to TAS Medical on Nov. 11 for "Systems, devices and methods for tissue fixation and approximating tissue defects" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,355, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TAS Medical Inc. (San Carlos, Calif.).

"Systems, devices and methods for tissue fixation and approximating tissue defects" was invented by Thomas A. Kramer (San Carlos, Calif.), Albert K. Chin (Palo Alto, Calif.), Gannon Borchers (San Francisco), Peter Bugos (Redwood City, Calif.), Andrew Kwok (Belmont, Calif.) and Steven Ledbetter (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device for approximating and securing tissue without requiring knots includes a lock-head, a strap section, distal protuberance, and a leader section. The device also includes a transition section between t...