US Patent Issued to 3D MEDLAB on July 22 for "Process for the production of a 4D medical device and 4D medical device" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,141, issued on July 22, was assigned to 3D MEDLAB (Marignane, France).

"Process for the production of a 4D medical device and 4D medical device" was invented by Gael Volpi (La Motte D'Aigues, France), Donatien Campion (Marseilles, France) and Marie Fischer (Aix-en-Provence, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject matter described herein relates to a process suitable for the production of an implantable medical device by means of a 3D printer. The process includes identifying an intended implant area for the medical device, collecting, in a non-invasive manner, a set of physiological data corresponding to the local anatomy o...