US Patent Issued to TVA Medical on May 13 for "Systems and methods for adhering vessels" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,645, issued on May 13, was assigned to TVA Medical Inc. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for adhering vessels" was invented by Thomas D. Pate (Austin, Texas), Philip M. Tetzlaff (Austin, Texas) and William E. Cohn (Bellaire, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described here are devices, systems, and methods for adhering tubular structures, such as blood vessels. Generally, the methods may comprise advancing a first catheter comprising a first adhesion element into a first blood vessel and a second catheter comprising a second adhesion element into a second blood vessel. The vessels may be adhered together by heating tis...