US Patent Issued to Vivifi Medical on Oct. 28 for "Laparoscopic anastomosis devices and methods of use thereof" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,558, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Vivifi Medical Inc. (Houston).

"Laparoscopic anastomosis devices and methods of use thereof" was invented by Tushar Sharma (Manvel, Texas), Frida Montoya (Pearland, Texas) and Nicolo Garbin (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes an elongate body and an end effector coupled to a distal end the elongate body. The end effector includes a first end effector element configured to hold a first coupler element, a second end effector element configured to hold a second coupler element of the, and first and second end effector elements coupling first and second end effector elemen...