US Patent Issued to Muffin on Feb. 4 for "Systems and methods for applying pressure to a bodily organ" (Indiana, North Carolina, Washington, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,881, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Muffin Inc. (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Systems and methods for applying pressure to a bodily organ" was invented by William J. Havel (West Lafayette, Ind.), Neal E. Fearnot (West Lafayette, Ind.), Jeremy T. Newkirk (West Lafayette, Ind.), Shaun Davis Gittard (Winston-Salem, N.C.), John C. Sigmon Jr. (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Gregory James Hardy (Asheville, N.C.), Rita Hadley (Otterbein, Ind.), Yun Zhou (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Mitch Turley (West Lafayette, Ind.) and David Reuter (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Among other things, there are disclosed embodiments of belts or bands that can...