US Patent Issued to Universite de Strasbourg, Hopitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg (HUS) on June 23 for "Device for anchoring an introducer of a medical device into the human body and method thereof" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,146, issued on June 23, was assigned to Universite de Strasbourg (Strasbourg, France) and Hopitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg (HUS) (Strasbourg, France).

"Device for anchoring an introducer of a medical device into the human body and method thereof" was invented by Nabil Chakfe (Hindisheim, France) and Nicole Neumann (Illkirch Graffenstaden, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This anchoring device (10) comprises: a support (14) to be held on the patient; a connecting assembly (18) mounted on the support (14); an introducer (12) receiving a clip (16) attached to the connecting assembly (18), the clip (16) defining a central passa...