US Patent Issued to xDot Medical on March 3 for "Access site management system for percutaneous vascular access" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,393, issued on March 3, was assigned to xDot Medical Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Access site management system for percutaneous vascular access" was invented by Aashiish Agnihotri (Maple Grove, Minn.), Jeffrey Sandstrom (Scandia, Minn.) and Steven M. Maurer (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a dynamic vascular access and closure device for radial cinching of an access site. The device includes a tensioning tube, a resilient member disposed within the tensioning tube, and a plurality of sutures extending axially between a distal end of the tensioning tube and a proximal end of the tensioning tube. A pr...