ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,364, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"Devices, systems, and methods for pyloric occlusion" was invented by Gerard Duignan (Galway, Ireland), Darren G. Curran (Galway, Ireland), James Quinn (Galway, Ireland) and Ryan D. Lynch (Roscommon, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An occlusion device or plug having a proximal plug section and a distal plug section. The plug sections may each be shifted between an unexpanded configuration and an expanded configuration at the deployment site to occlude the deployment site. A tubular member such as a silicone tube may be used to form an o...