US Patent Issued to xDot Medical on July 15 for "Access site management system for percutaneous vascular access" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,288, issued on July 15, was assigned to xDot Medical Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Access site management system for percutaneous vascular access" was invented by Aashiish Agnihotri (Maple Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a dynamic vascular access and closure device for radial cinching of an access site. The device includes a tensioning tube, a resilient member disposed within the tensioning tube, and a plurality of sutures extending axially between a distal end of the tensioning tube and a proximal end of the tensioning tube. A proximal end of each of the plurality of sutures can be configured to att...