U.S. Patent 7914543 was awarded to Satiety, Inc. on 2011-03-29 and describes a “Single fold device for tissue fixation.” This patent has been cited 368 times by other U.S. patents which places it in the top 500 cited patents since 2010 according to our law firm research, and makes it of the most innovative medical technology patents in the field of instruments. The abstract states:

A system for tissue approximation and fixation is described herein. A device is advanced in a minimally invasive manner within a patient’s body to create one or several divisions or plications within a hollow body organ. The system comprises a stapler assembly having a tissue acquisition member and a tissue fixation member. The stapler assembly approximates tissue from within the hollow body organ with the acquisition member and then affixes the approximated tissue with the fixation member. In one method, the system can be used as a secondary procedure to reduce the size of a stoma within the hollow body organ. Link: U.S. Patent 7914543

This patent was originally filed on 2005-04-15 which gives it a processing time of 2174 days, compared to an average processing time of 1942 in the field. Satiety, Inc. has 29 total patents. The first named inventor is Alex T. Roth of Redwood City, CA. The primary examiner was Julian W Woo.

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