US Patent Issued to MICRO-TECH (NANJING) on Sept. 22 for "Suture tightening device" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,690, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to MICRO-TECH (NANJING) Co. LTD. (Jiangsu, China).

"Suture tightening device" was invented by Kenneth F. Binmoeller (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.), Hongyan Jin (Jiangsu, China) and Xiaojun Ma (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a suture tightening device, including: a first thread take-up wheel, a second thread take-up wheel, and a thread gear support detachably connected to an endoscope handle, wherein the first thread take-up wheel is arranged at a space from the second thread take-up wheel, and the first thread take-up wheel and the second thread take-up wheel are separately...