US Patent Issued to Vivasure Medical on July 7 for "Implant for vascular closure" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,862, issued on July 7, was assigned to Vivasure Medical Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Implant for vascular closure" was invented by Peter Grant (Galway, Ireland), Mark McGoldrick (Athlone, Ireland), Christopher Martin (Oughterard, Ireland) and Gerard Brett (Claregalway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable device for sealing an aperture in a tissue of a body vessel, includes: an external fixation disposed on the outside of a vessel wall; a scaffold disposed on the inside of the vessel wall and interfacing with the external fixation, at least a portion of the scaffold disposed through an aperture in the vessel wall; and a p...