US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on Sept. 8 for "Surgical suture tensioning and labeling" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,877, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Surgical suture tensioning and labeling" was invented by Felino V. Cortez Jr. (Bowie, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of managing suture deployment onto a target organ tissue involves applying a label to a first portion of a first suture extending externally from a target organ, the first suture having a second portion deployed onto the target organ tissue within the target organ. The method further involves attaching a suture tab to the first portion or another portion of the first suture extending externally from the target organ, and ...