US Patent Issued to NOVUS SCIENTIFIC on Jan. 13 for "Tubular mesh support device with different circumferential areas" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,228, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NOVUS SCIENTIFIC AB (Uppsalla, Sweden).

"Tubular mesh support device with different circumferential areas" was invented by Per Egnelov (Uppsala, Sweden) and Torbjorn Mathisen (Alvsjo, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a mesh support device (10; 20) for supporting a breast implant (30), wherein the mesh support device (10; 20) is tubular and comprises a first circumferential mesh area (11; 21), which is characterized by a first set of mesh characteristics and which has a first circumferential length, and a second circumferential mesh area (12; 22), which is character...