US Patent Issued to ZURIMED TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 10 for "Surgical device, device for pre-bending a buckling wire, method for felting an implant to soft tissue, and method for pre-bending a buckling wire" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,064, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ZURIMED TECHNOLOGIES AG (Switzerland).

"Surgical device, device for pre-bending a buckling wire, method for felting an implant to soft tissue, and method for pre-bending a buckling wire" was invented by Pol Banzet (Zurich, Switzerland), Reto Graf (Zurich, Switzerland), Elias Bachmann (Zurich, Switzerland) and Xiang Li (Uster, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a surgical device for felting an implant to soft tissue of a patient. The device comprises at least one felting needle that is configured to move reciprocally. The device comprises a needle protection mech...