US Patent Issued to Circa Scientific on Sept. 8 for "Tissue engagement devices, systems, and methods" (Utah, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,867, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Circa Scientific Inc. (Englewood, Colo.).

"Tissue engagement devices, systems, and methods" was invented by Jay Muse (Salt Lake City), Kevin Jerry Cook (Kaysville, Utah), Adnan Becic (Sandy, Utah), Nathaniel Young (Salt Lake City), David Willenbrink (Denver) and Puskar Mishra (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of a tissue engagement device having a sheath, a first arm, a second arm, a first tissue engaging member, a second tissue engaging member, and an actuation cannula. At least a proximal portion of each arm is within the sheath and the tissue engaging members may b...