US Patent Issued to MetaModix on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for anchoring and restraining gastrointestinal prostheses" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,246, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MetaModix Inc. (Plymouth, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for anchoring and restraining gastrointestinal prostheses" was invented by Kedar R. Belhe (Minnetoka, Minn.), Werner Schwarz (Ruhpolding, Germany) and Todd Stangenes (Mineapolis, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for anchoring and restraining gastrointestinal prostheses are disclosed. In various examples, the systems and methods include securing a gastrointestinal device within a patient's anatomy by extending an anti-migration anchor through a plurality of portions of the gastrointestinal device to couple together th...