US Patent Issued to Merit Medical Systems on Nov. 4 for "Layered medical appliances and methods" (Utah, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,484, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Merit Medical Systems Inc. (South Jordan, Utah).

"Layered medical appliances and methods" was invented by John Hall (North Salt Lake, Utah), Wayne Mower (Bountiful, Utah), Rachel Simmons (North Salt Lake, Utah) and Bart Dolmatch (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Medical appliances may be formed of multilayered constructs. The layers of the constructs may be configured with various physical properties or characteristics. The disposition and arrangement of each layer may be configured to create an overall construct with a combination of the individual properties of the layers. Const...