US Patent Issued to Muffin on July 28 for "Closing device for tissue openings" (North Carolina, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,868, issued on July 28, was assigned to Muffin Inc. (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Closing device for tissue openings" was invented by Gregory James Hardy (Winston Salem, N.C.), Shaun Davis Gittard (Winston-Salem, N.C.), John C. Sigmon Jr. (Winston-Salem, N.C.), William J. Havel (West Lafayette, Ind.), Jeremy T. Newkirk (West Lafayette, Ind.), Neal E. Fearnot (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Rita Hadley (Otterbein, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are shown and described embodiments of a closure device for closing holes in tissue, for example in the right atrial appendage. The closure device in particular embodiments includes first and ...