US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on July 28 for "Apparatus, device, and method for increasing force distribution at suture-tissue interface" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,860, issued on July 28, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Apparatus, device, and method for increasing force distribution at suture-tissue interface" was invented by Laura E. Christakis (Framingham, Mass.), Paul Smith (Smithfield, R.I.), Ryan V. Wales (Northborough, Mass.), Scott E. Brechbiel (Acton, Mass.), Jeff Gray (Sudbury, Mass.) and Sean P. Fleury (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to apparatus, devices, and methods for increasing force distribution at a suture-tissue interface. In some embodiments, a tissue suturing device may include a deploy...