US Patent Issued on June 23 for "Retractor and holder" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,101, issued on June 23.

"Retractor and holder" was invented by Shigeyuki Ozaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A retractor includes plural holes penetrating from a front surface to a back surface of the retractor. The retractor is inserted into an aorta. When one end side of a thread that penetrates from the front surface to the back surface through one of the holes and penetrates from an inside to an outside of the aorta, and the other end side of the thread that penetrates from the front surface to the back surface through a hole of the plural holes different from the hole through which the one end side penetrates and penetra...