US Patent Issued to TriMed on Sept. 1 for "Method and apparatus for supporting a u-shaped portion of an elongate flexible element relative to a human body tissue" (Hawaii Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,618, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TriMed Inc. (Santa Clarita, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for supporting a u-shaped portion of an elongate flexible element relative to a human body tissue" was invented by Robert Medoff (Kailua, Hawaii).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and a method of engaging a U-shaped portion of an elongate flexible element with the apparatus. The apparatus has a body with an anchoring part, a channel extending up to the anchoring part, and an entry opening to the channel. With the U-shaped portion and body in an operative relationship, wherein the U-shaped portion straddles the anchoring part, t...