ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,163, issued on April 7, was assigned to Hangzhou Valgen Medtech Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).
"Tissue gripper and valve clamping device" was invented by Tingchao Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Weiwei Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Xianzhang Zheng (Hangzhou, China) and Yiwei He (Hangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tissue gripper (60), includes a connecting frame (62) and two gripping arms (64). The connecting frame (62) includes two spaced connecting pieces (623), and the two gripping arms (64) are respectively arranged at sides of the two connecting pieces (623). Each gripping arm (64) includes a bending section (641) connected to the...