ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,587, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to HUAI'AN JINOU MEDICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY Co. LTD (Jiangsu, China).

"Asymmetric anastomat with anti-reflux effect for esophagogastric anastomosis" was invented by Erhong Ma (Jiangsu, China) and Junling Ma (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses an asymmetric anastomat with anti-reflux effect for esophagogastric anastomosis, the improvements lie in that the end face of a nail bin is formed by two arc-shaped plates that are bent towards the same direction and connected and closed in an end-to-end manner to form an arc-shaped cavity, nail outlet holes in the arc-shap...