US Patent Issued to Stetrix on Oct. 6 for "Tissue retention systems and methods" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,883, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Stetrix Inc. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Tissue retention systems and methods" was invented by David D. Blurton (Whiteville, Tenn.) and Mark Buchanan (Atoka, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tissue retention belt for maintaining tissue in a position that permits access to a body portion of a patient for a medical procedure includes a first anchor zone, a second anchor zone, and a tension zone. The tension zone extends between the first anchor zone and the second anchor zone and defines a tension axis that extends in a direction of loading to be applied to retained tissue. The tension zone may includ...