US Patent Issued to The General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Sept. 9 for "Wireless-enabled surgical suture needle" (Virginia, Massachusetts, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,911, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Wireless-enabled surgical suture needle" was invented by Matthew J. Meyer (North Garden, Va.), Rahul Bhattacharyya (Lowell, Mass.), Wilton Cahn Levine (Needham, Mass.), Sai Nithin R. Kantareddy (Cambridge, Mass.), Dustin R. Long (Seattle), Sanjay E. Sarma (Lexington, Mass.), David H. Bartels (Williamstown, Mass.), Devan D. Bartels (Williamstown, Mass.) and Matthew M. Vanneman (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suture needle apparatus includes a needle body and a radio-frequency id...