US Patent Issued to Standard Bariatrics on April 15 for "Systems and methods of performing surgery using laplace's law tension retraction during surgery" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,635, issued on April 15, was assigned to Standard Bariatrics Inc. (Cincinnati).

"Systems and methods of performing surgery using laplace's law tension retraction during surgery" was invented by Jonathan R. Thompson (Cincinnati), Mark Steven Ortiz (Milford, Ohio), Saylan James Lukas (Cincinnati) and Liam Clayton Groom (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are embodiments of an apparatus, system, and method for performing a sleeve gastrectomy. The apparatus can include a bougie for insertion into an interior of a stomach, the bougie having a proximal bougie end and a distal bougie end, an inflation lumen having a proximal...