ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,066, issued on April 7.
"Surgical ligature instrument for minimally invasive surgery" was invented by Abhijit Shaligram (Mountain House, Calif.), Ravi Mohanka (Mumbai, India), Manish Mohanka (Coppell, Texas) and Gautam Gupta (Westford, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a surgical suturing device that assists in applying an open-looped, pre-knotted suture around a targeted area of application. The surgical suturing device contains a handle, a grasping mechanism, a clamp tube, a pusher tube, a cutter tube, and a pivot arm. A first coupler is positioned on the pivot arm. A second coupler is positioned at the ...