US Patent Issued to NXT Biomedical on Aug. 5 for "Methods and technology for creating connections and shunts between vessels and chambers of biologic structures" (California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,978, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to NXT Biomedical LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Methods and technology for creating connections and shunts between vessels and chambers of biologic structures" was invented by Robert S. Schwartz (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.), Stanton J. Rowe (Newport Coast, Calif.), Robert C. Taft (Orange, Calif.), Glen Rabito (Lake Forest, Calif.), Alexander Siegel (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) and Joseph Passman (Costa Mesa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods of treating conditions cause or exacerbated by excessive fluid pressures or retentions, such as pulmonary hypertension, that involves shunting excessi...