ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,750, issued on June 24, was assigned to Aerin Medical Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Soft palate treatment" was invented by Andrew Frazier (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Scott J. Wolf (Menlo Park, Calif.), Fred Dinger (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Charlton Yih (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating a soft palate in a patient may involve advancing a tissue treatment portion of a soft palate treatment device through the patient's mouth, contacting a treatment surface of the tissue treatment portion with mucosal tissue of the soft palate, and delivering energy from the tissue treatment portion through the mucosal tissue ...