ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,378, issued on July 15, was assigned to Aerin Medical Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Treating upper airway nerve tissue" was invented by Scott J. Wolf (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Andrew Frazier (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for treating a patient's mucus hypersecretion condition are disclosed herein. Certain implementations may involve a method for reducing mucus secretion in an upper airway of a patient to treat at least one of post nasal drip or chronic cough. The method may include advancing a treatment delivery portion of an energy-based treatment device into a nostril of the patient. The trea...