US Patent Issued to Septulus on March 24 for "Negative pressure-based gripping system and method" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,430, issued on March 24, was assigned to Septulus AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Negative pressure-based gripping system and method" was invented by Tim Kovac (Anderslov, Sweden), Henrik Bjursten (Lund, Sweden), Matthias Gotberg (Lund, Sweden) and Magnus Dencker (Hollviken, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to negative pressure-based gripping system for gripping and retaining a target, preferably a moving target, such as a heart of a human or animal, in a fixed position, comprising: a catheter having a tubular body; a proximal end; and a remotely operable and flexible distal end section with a distal opening;...