ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,098, issued on June 23, was assigned to VENOCK MEDICAL GMBH (Regensburg, Germany).
"Medical apparatus and method for closing an aperture in a tissue" was invented by Wolfgang Goetz (Regensburg, Germany) and Terrence G Barnes (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a medical apparatus for closing an aperture, an incision, a puncture, a passage through tissue and/or a communication with a blood vessel or other body lumen (short: aperture) of a tissue of a patient, the medical apparatus comprising a closing device holder, for releasably receiving one or more closing devices; and a retracting unit to come ...