ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,473, issued on June 17, was assigned to Neptune Medical Inc. (Burlingame, Calif.).
"Dynamically rigidizing composite medical structures" was invented by Alexander Q. Tilson (Burlingame, Calif.), Stephen J. Morris (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Garrett J. Gomes (San Mateo, Calif.), Adam S. Wigginton (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Mark C. Scheeff (San Francisco), Charles S. Love (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Viet Anh Nguyen (Burlingame, Calif.), Elias Eletheriades (Redwood City, Calif.), Jonathan Sindler (Burlingame, Calif.), Francisco G. Lopez (San Francisco) and Andy C. Kiser (Presto, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rigidizing device includes a pluralit...