US Patent Issued to Teleflex Life Sciences on Jan. 13 for "Instrument and methods for surgically closing percutaneous punctures" (Pennsylvania, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,103, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Teleflex Life Sciences LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Instrument and methods for surgically closing percutaneous punctures" was invented by Greg A. Walters (Exton, Pa.), Gary Roubin (New York), Michael Thomas Nispel (Malvern, Pa.), Michael Austin Dotsey (Chester Springs, Pa.) and Piyush Arora (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for sealing a percutaneous puncture in a wall of a body passageway are disclosed herein. The methods include inserting a deployment instrument into the puncture via a toggle along the guidewire, and actuating the deployment instrument to move the first compone...