US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on Nov. 25 for "Devices and method for facilitating placement of sutures in a surgical procedure" (Massachusetts, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,370, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Devices and method for facilitating placement of sutures in a surgical procedure" was invented by Christopher W. DiGiovanni (Milton, Mass.), Rohan Bhimani (Bronx, N.Y.), Gregory Waryasz (Milton, Mass.), Bart Lubberts (Cambridge, Mass.) and Daniel Guss (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guiding apparatus, system, method, and forceps device for facilitating placement of sutures in a surgical procedure. The apparatus including a shaft portion having a non-circular aperture extending laterally therethrough and a blade portion having a shank exte...