US Patent Issued to Prana Thoracic on May 12 for "Systems and methods for sealing cored or punctured tissue using inflatable balloon" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,745, issued on May 12, was assigned to Prana Thoracic Inc. (Houston).

"Systems and methods for sealing cored or punctured tissue using inflatable balloon" was invented by William Cohn (Bellaire, Texas), Terry Daglow (Houston), Matthew Kuhn (Houston) and Steven Nguyen (Cypress, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for sealing tissue sites may comprise coring tissue at a target site such that a tissue core is removed from the target site thereby creating a core cavity at the target site and causing sealing of at least a portion of the target site."

The patent was filed on March 15, 2021, under Application No. 17/201...