US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on May 26 for "Perianal fistula closure system" (Maryland, Virginia, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,003, issued on May 26, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Perianal fistula closure system" was invented by Kiley Gersch (Baltimore), Sophia Diaz (Baltimore), Karina Frank (Manassas, Va.), Monet Slinowsky (Baltimore), Ebenezer Adjei Armah (Baltimore), Zachary Buono (Powhatan, Va.), Youseph Yazdi (Ellicott City, Md.), Evan Mosley (Berkley, Mich.) and Russell Holscher (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a delivery device configured to deploy a perianal fistula closure device and the perianal fistula closure device configured to close a perianal fistula. The delivery device may include a ...