US Patent Issued to INSPIRE MEDICAL SYSTEMS on July 15 for "Systems and methods for treating incontinence" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,823, issued on July 15, was assigned to INSPIRE MEDICAL SYSTEMS INC. (Golden Valley, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for treating incontinence" was invented by John Rondoni (Plymouth, Minn.) and Stephen Lorne Bolea (Golden Valley, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and/or method to treat incontinence of a patient includes a stimulation element implanted to stimulate one or more target sites to activate an external sphincter or other mechanism of continence of the patient, such as the external urethral sphincter and/or the external anal sphincter."

The patent was filed on May 26, 2020, under Application No. 17/613,869.

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