US Patent Issued to INSPIRE MEDICAL SYSTEMS on May 27 for "Implant-access incision and sensing for sleep disordered breathing (SDB) care" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,179, issued on May 27, was assigned to INSPIRE MEDICAL SYSTEMS INC. (Golden Valley, Minn.).

"Implant-access incision and sensing for sleep disordered breathing (SDB) care" was invented by Kevin Verzal (Lino Lakes, Minn.), John Rondoni (Plymouth, Minn.), David Dieken (Minneapolis), Luke Lozier (Shorewood, Wis.) and Darrell Wagner (Ham Lake, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and/or method to provide sleep disordered breathing (SDB) care includes an implant-access incision and/or a sensing element."

The patent was filed on Feb. 4, 2020, under Application No. 16/977,677.

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