ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,337, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Teleflex Life Sciences LLC (Wilmington, Del.).
"Anchor delivery system" was invented by Joseph Catanese III (Oakland, Calif.), Theodore Bender (San Anselmo, Calif.), Robert George (San Jose, Calif.), Floria Cheng (San Francisco), Jolene Cutts (San Francisco), Ling-Kang Tong (Fremont, Calif.), Michael Gearhart (Fremont, Calif.), Matthew McLean (San Francisco), James Niederjohn (San Jose, Calif.), Brian Y. Tachibana (Oakland, Calif.) and Ben Thompson (San Carlos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and associated method for manipulating tissues and anatomical or other structures in medic...