US Patent Issued to DURASTAT on Jan. 20 for "Suturing device with replaceable distal end" (Texas, California, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,568, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to DURASTAT LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Suturing device with replaceable distal end" was invented by Jens Johnson (Austin, Texas), Adam Azzara (Austin, Texas), Kevin T. Foley (Memphis, Tenn.) and Michael J. Milella Jr. (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suturing device includes a cannula, a distal end assembly removably connected to the cannula, a needle pusher provided in the cannula and extending into the distal end assembly when the distal end assembly is connected with the cannula, a primer movable between an extended position and a depressed position, and a spring positioned between the pr...