US Patent Issued to LIPOCOSM on Jan. 13 for "Surgical tools and methods for their use" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,229, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to LIPOCOSM LLC (Key Biscayne, Fla.).

"Surgical tools and methods for their use" was invented by Roger K. Khouri (Key Biscayne, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical tools and kits for performing methods include a grommet with cylindrical shaft, cutting tip, annular flange with suture retaining anchoring fixture; a grommet jig for extending between adjacent grommets and guiding a needle therebetween; a family of needles with single and double pointed ends, reinforced eyelets, stops to limit inadvertent exiting, double shaft construction with a longitudinal gap and sharpened, slicing ends, i...