US Patent Issued to TellTale, The National Institutes of Health (NIH) on July 28 for "Tissue cutting systems and methods" (Massachusetts, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,259, issued on July 28, was assigned to TellTale LLC (Andover, Mass.) and The National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Bethseda, Moldova).

"Tissue cutting systems and methods" was invented by Nasser Rafiee (Andover, Mass.), Robert J Lederman (Bethseda, Md.), Rany Busold (Andover, Mass.), Morgan House (Andover, Mass.), Jaffar Khan (Bethseda, Md.), Toby Rogers (Bethseda, Md.) and Christopher G Bruce (Bethseda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides various embodiments of systems to facilitate the cutting of luminal tissue structures percutaneously."

The patent was filed on March 31, 2022, under Application No. 17/710,1...