US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on Dec. 9 for "Methods and devices for selective disruption of visceral fat by controlled cooling" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,017, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Methods and devices for selective disruption of visceral fat by controlled cooling" was invented by Matthew M. Avram (Boston), Richard Rox Anderson (Boston) and Joshua Tam (Charlestown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, the present invention provides a method of cooling to produce selective disruption of visceral fat tissue in a non-infant human subject comprising infusing a cooled fluid into the abdominal or peritoneal cavity, or into other parts of the body containing visceral fat, to cool the proximal tissue sufficiently to selectively di...