ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,659, issued on May 20, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and The Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc. (Boston).
"Thermally controlled reconfigurable medical devices" was invented by Robert S. Langer (Newton, Mass.), Carlo Giovanni Traverso (Newton, Mass.), Sahab Babaee (Arlington, Mass.), Simo Pajovic (Mississauga, Canada) and Ester Caffarel Salvador (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods related to reconfigurable medical devices are described. In some embodiments, a reconfigurable medical device may include a central core and a plurality of arms. The arms may be rotat...