US Patent Issued to VENOVATION on July 15 for "Apparatus and methods for closing vessels" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,319, issued on July 15, was assigned to VENOVATION INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus and methods for closing vessels" was invented by Bradley B. Hill (Santa Clara, Calif.), James Hong (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Wenkang Qi (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are provided for closing a tubular structure within a patient's body. The apparatus includes a needle including a proximal end including a hub, a distal end including a sharpened distal tip, a lumen having an oblong cross-section extending proximally from the distal end, and defining a longitudinal axis between the proximal and distal ends, an...