US Patent Issued to CRYOSA on July 29 for "Systems and methods for treatment of obstructive sleep apnea" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,965, issued on July 29, was assigned to CRYOSA INC. (Arden Hills, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for treatment of obstructive sleep apnea" was invented by Srinivas Kannan (Arden Hills, Minn.), Orhan Soykan (Arden Hills, Minn.), Mark Christopherson (Arden Hills, Minn.), Donald A. Gonzales (Arden Hills, Minn.), Stefan Skorich (Arden Hills, Minn.), Guy Vanney (Arden Hills, Minn.), Douglas Krone (Arden Hills, Minn.) and Matthew Anthony Bachmeier (Arden Hills, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices, and systems employ cryolysis of oropharyngeal adipose tissues to selectively remove fat cells from the tissues causing obstructi...