US Patent Issued to Vivasure Medical on Oct. 28 for "Implantable devices, systems and methods for closing aperture" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,543, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Vivasure Medical Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Implantable devices, systems and methods for closing aperture" was invented by Peter Grant (Galway, Ireland), Mark McGoldrick (Athlone, Ireland) and Gerard Brett (Claregalway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology provides an implantable device for sealing an aperture in a tissue of a body lumen. In some embodiments, the implantable device comprises a flexible sealable member having an elongated shape so that a longitudinal dimension of the flexible sealable member is greater than a lateral dimension of the flexible sealable me...