ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,892, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ALTYX MEDICAL INC. (Evanston, Ill.).

"Suture-based assembly for tissue repair, and associated devices and methods" was invented by Douglas Scherr (Scarsdale, N.Y.), Roger Goldberg (Evanston, Ill.) and Ghazaleh Rostami Nia (Lake Forest, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology is directed to systems, methods, and devices for anchoring suture devices into a target patient tissue to treat a medical condition. For example, in some embodiments the present technology includes a tissue-support system including an applicator device and a suture device. The applicator device is configure...