US Patent Issued to MEACOK on July 21 for "Devices for delivering helical anchors" (Lebanese, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,523, issued on July 21, was assigned to MEACOK INC. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Devices for delivering helical anchors" was invented by Toufic Azar (Montreal), Renzo Cecere (Mont-Royal, Canada), Elia Nammour (Deel el mehdi, Lebanon), Bechara Yared (Aoukar, Lebanon), Daniel Farhat (Ghobeiry, Lebanon) and Ahmad Hijazi (Beirut).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hollow catheter segment comprising a longitudinally extending slot region including a slot, at least one longitudinally backbone region and longitudinally extending intermediate regions between either adjacent backbone regions or between one of the backbone regions and the slot region, the ...