ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,179, issued on July 8, was assigned to RESHAPE LIFESCIENCES INC. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Intragastric device" was invented by Mark C. Brister (Encinitas, Calif.), Paul D. Faucher (Escondido, Calif.), Neil R. Drake (San Diego), Andrew P. Rasdal (San Diego), Matthew S. Lake (Carlsbad, Calif.), Dubravka Markovic (San Diego), Amy D. L. VandenBerg (San Diego), Antonio C. Llevares (Chula Vista, Calif.) and Josefina Nider (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods for treating obesity are provided. More particularly, intragastric devices and methods of fabricating, deploying, inflating, monitoring, and retrieving the same are p...