ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,574, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to MICRO-TECH (NANJING) Co. LTD. (Jiangsu, China).
"Single-anchor mechanism and suturing device" was invented by Kenneth F. Binmoeller (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.), Qiang Zhang (Guangzhou, China), Hongyan Jin (Jiangsu, China) and Xiaojun Ma (Jiangsu, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a single-anchor mechanism and a suturing device. The single-anchor mechanism provided in the present disclosure includes: an anchor, a transmission tube, a traction wire, and a limiting element; one end of the traction wire is connected to the anchor, and the traction wire passes through ...