ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,620, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Astron Medtech Corp. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Suture guiding device" was invented by Yi-Hsi Huang (Taipei, Taiwan), I-Lin Tsai (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Kuei-Hua Chen (Taipei City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical guidewire device includes an outer tube and a guide needle. The outer tube has a needle tip formed at a tube distal end of the outer tube. The guide needle is movably disposed in the outer tube and has a needle eye structure. When the surgical guidewire device is in use, a suture extends through the needle eye structure, and is carried through the outer tube along with the...