US Patent Issued to United States Endoscopy Group on May 12 for "Large tissue defect recruiting device" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,685, issued on May 12, was assigned to United States Endoscopy Group Inc. (Mentor, Ohio).

"Large tissue defect recruiting device" was invented by Reza Mohammadpour (Willoughby Hills, Ohio), Alex Uspenski (Chardon, Ohio), Keith Randall John (Chardon, Ohio), Seth Byers (Madison, Ohio), Brittany Ochs (Painesville, Ohio), Michael C. Hauser (Chardon, Ohio), Meha Elango (Copley, Ohio) and Brett DuFour (Mentor, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tissue recruiting device for treating and closing a defect and methods of using the same. The tissue recruiting device includes a tissue recruiting assembly with two grasping devices and a shroud....