US Patent Issued to Allurion Technologies on Sept. 9 for "Methods and devices for deploying and releasing a temporary implant within the body" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,056, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Allurion Technologies LLC (Natick, Mass.).

"Methods and devices for deploying and releasing a temporary implant within the body" was invented by Samuel Moss (Natick, Mass.), Matthew S. Lake (Natick, Mass.), Jonathan Wecker (Natick, Mass.), Shantanu K. Gaur (Natick, Mass.), Samuel G. Levy (Natick, Mass.), Bruce A. Horwitz (Natick, Mass.) and Jinyoung Daniel Gwak (Natick, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices and systems for delivering a device assembly into a gastric or other space within the body, allowing the device to expand to occupy volume within the gastric space and, afte...