US Patent Issued to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services on April 21 for "Tissue clamp and implantation method" (District Of Columbia, Tennessee, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,156, issued on April 21, was assigned to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Md.).

"Tissue clamp and implantation method" was invented by Vladimir R. Khristov (Washington), Steven T. Charles (Memphis, Tenn.), Juan A. Amaral (Silver Spring, Md.), Arvydas Maminishkis (Washington) and Kapil Bharti (Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical clamp for aligning the margins of incised or wounded tissue has jaws with parallel clamping faces, and a handle for manipulating the clamp to align the margins of the tissue. The jaws are in a normally closed ...