ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,215, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Baria Tek Medical (Paris).
"Apparatus and method for forming an anastomosis" was invented by Eric Sejor (Nice, France), Youssef Biadillah (Maisons-Laffitte, France), Yonatan Gray (Paris), Christophe Naz (Fontainebleau, France), Thomas Friedrich (Dresden, Germany), Mario Heintze (Dresden, Germany) and Tobias Rokosch (Dresden, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus for forming an anastomosis between first and second body lumen wall sections, the apparatus having a coil implant (10) which has an elongate tubular member (16) made of shape memory material, the elongate member being self-ex...