US Patent Issued to ARTERICA on June 16 for "Vascular closure devices and methods" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,522, issued on June 16, was assigned to ARTERICA INC (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

"Vascular closure devices and methods" was invented by Brian Hauck (Windsor, Calif.), Robert Carter (Petaluma, Calif.), Dion Thurow (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Joseph W. Humphrey (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Robert G. Whirley (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Thomas Larzon (Lidingo, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vascular closure assembly embodiments may be used to provide hemostasis at vascular puncture sites or the like. Such vascular puncture or access sites may be created during a variety of percutaneous or minimally invasive medical procedures."

The patent was filed on...