U.S. Patent 7992757 was awarded to RAPTOR RIDGE, LLC on 2011-08-09 and describes a “Systems and methods of tissue closure.” This patent has been cited 254 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:

Apparatus, systems, and methods are described for closing the base of a left atrial appendage or other tissue structure. A tissue closure device comprises a pair of legs having compliant surfaces for engaging against opposite sides of the tissue structure. A plurality of axially spaced-apart tissue-penetrating fasteners are delivered from one leg to the other to pierce the intervening tissue and hold the closure device in place on the tissue structure. Link: U.S. Patent 7992757

This patent was originally filed on 2007-05-03 which gives it a processing time of 1559 days, compared to an average processing time of 1226 in the field. RAPTOR RIDGE, LLC has 5 total patents. The first named inventor is William K. Wheeler of Alamo, CA. The primary examiner was Scott A. Smith.

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