ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,827, issued on July 15, was assigned to Nuvaira Inc. (Minneapolis).
"System and method for bronchial dilation" was invented by Edwin J. Hlavka (Minneapolis) and Lynn Elliott (Maple Grove, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of reducing bronchial constriction in a subject includes delivering energy to create one or more lesions on a main bronchus so as to transect pulmonary nerves sufficiently to reduce bronchial constriction in a lung of the patient distal to the main bronchus."
The patent was filed on July 13, 2021, under Application No. 17/374,245.
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