US Patent Issued to Hologic on Oct. 27 for "Running stitch suturing instrument" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,205, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Hologic Inc. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Running stitch suturing instrument" was invented by Marco Bedoya (Marlborough, Mass.), Catherine Withers (Marlborough, Mass.) and Matt Laplaca (Marlborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laparoscopic tissue suturing instrument comprises a shaft and a tissue grasper coupled to the shaft. The tissue grasper defines a tissue receiving gap and defining a shuttling element retention cavity. The instrument further comprises a suture shuttling element configured for being removably retained at least partially within the shuttling element retention cavity, a...