ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,826, issued on May 13, was assigned to C.R. Bard Inc. (Murray Hill, N.J.).
"Repair prosthetic curl mitigation" was invented by Jonathan Bruce Trexler (Rehoboth, Mass.), Augustus Felix (Cranston, R.I.), Tami L. Rathbun (Exeter, R.I.), Cameron Michael Correia (Warwick, R.I.) and Tyler William Marshall (Andover, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A repair prosthetic for repairing a hernia is disclosed. In some embodiments, the repair prosthetic includes a patch body, a frame that assists in spreading the patch body from a reduced configuration to an expanded configuration, and a plurality of tethers attached to the patch body at locat...