US Patent Issued to Medtronic Vascular on July 1 for "Prolapse prevention device and methods of use thereof" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,257, issued on July 1, was assigned to Medtronic Vascular Inc. (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

"Prolapse prevention device and methods of use thereof" was invented by Niall Duffy (Galway, Ireland), David Farascioni (Bethel, Conn.), Adam Fitzgerald (St. Louis Park, Minn.), Nathan Knutson (Long Lake, Minn.), Ana Menk (Shoreview, Minn.), Aran Murray (Galway, Ireland) and Jay Rassat (Buffalo, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prolapse prevention device formed by a continuous wire-like structure having a first end and a second end disconnected from each other. The continuous wire-like structure is substantially straight in a delivery configurat...