US Patent Issued to Vivasure Medical on Nov. 3 for "Delivery system and method for vascular closure implant" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,566, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Vivasure Medical Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Delivery system and method for vascular closure implant" was invented by Peter Grant (Galway, Ireland), Mark McGoldrick (Athlone, 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 patch disposed on...