US Patent Issued to ACCESS CLOSURE on Aug. 11 for "Apparatus and method for sealing a vascular puncture" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,397, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to ACCESS CLOSURE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for sealing a vascular puncture" was invented by Ronald Ray Hundertmark (San Mateo, Calif.), Kevin To (San Jose, Calif.), Curt Guyer (Dublin, Calif.), Rick Repp (San Jose, Calif.), Martin Schnitzer (San Francisco) and Sravanthi Avuthu (Portola Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A closure system for delivering a sealant to an arteriotomy. A distal section of the closure system can include overlapping inner and outer sleeves that can expand with expansion of the sealant. A proximal section of the closure system can includ...