US Patent Issued to VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, VIRTUOSO SURGICAL on Feb. 10 for "System, apparatus, and method for suturing" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,060, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (Nashville, Tenn.) and VIRTUOSO SURGICAL INC. (Nashville, Tenn.).

"System, apparatus, and method for suturing" was invented by Ernar Amanov (Nashville, Tenn.), Dominick Ropella (Nashville, Tenn.), Naren Nimmagadda (Nashville, Tenn.), Nicholas Kavoussi (Nashville, Tenn.), Neal Dillon (Nashville, Tenn.), Richard Hendrick (Nashville, Tenn.), Stanley Herrell (Nashville, Tenn.) and Robert Webster (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system, method, and apparatus for suturing a first anatomical structure to a second anatomical structure of a subject includ...