US Patent Issued to Pulmonx on July 8 for "Methods and devices for passive residual lung volume reduction and functional lung volume expansion" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,428, issued on July 8, was assigned to Pulmonx Corp. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Methods and devices for passive residual lung volume reduction and functional lung volume expansion" was invented by Nikolai Aljuri (Hillsborough, Calif.), Rodney C. Perkins (Woodside, Calif.), Ryan Olivera (Granite Bay, Calif.), Hoang Nguyen (San Jose, Calif.), Srikanth Radhakrishnan (Cupertino, Calif.) and Niyazi Beyhan (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The volume of a hyperinflated lung compartment is reduced by sealing a distal end of the catheter in an airway feeding the lung compartment. Air passes out of the lung compartment through ...