US Patent Issued to Prana Thoracic on April 21 for "Systems, devices, and methods for coring tissue" (Texas, Rhode Island, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,150, issued on April 21, was assigned to Prana Thoracic Inc. (Houston).

"Systems, devices, and methods for coring tissue" was invented by William Cohn (Bellaire, Texas), Terry Daglow (Houston), Matthew Kuhn (Houston), Jonathan Melchor (Warwick, R.I.), Theodore Mick (Houston), Chris Mills (Houston), Steven Nguyen (Cypress, Texas) and Jorge Salazar (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for removing tissues may comprise disposing a tissue resection device at a target tissue site, causing the tissue resection device to resect a core of tissue from the target tissue site, removing the core of tissue from the body, wherein the...