US Patent Issued to Davol on Sept. 8 for "Method and device for tissue defect closure" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,885, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Davol Inc. (Warwick, R.I.).

"Method and device for tissue defect closure" was invented by Daniel F. McCormick (Bolton, Mass.) and Cuixiang Qu Spinney (North Attleboro, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods for closure of apertures in tissue (e.g., defects in fascial tissue) are generally provided. Closure of apertures in tissue, e.g., using sutures and patch closures, are common surgical operations. In some aspects, methods and devices for using tissue grippers to engage tissue portions, and subsequently biasing the tissue grippers and tissue portions towards one another by c...