US Patent Issued to THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM on March 4 for "Biocompatible biomedical occlusion device" (Texas, Indiana, Arizona, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,304, issued on March 4, was assigned to THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (College Station, Texas).

"Biocompatible biomedical occlusion device" was invented by Mark A. Wierzbicki (College Station, Texas), Duncan Maitland (College Station, Texas), Matthew W. Miller (Carefree, Ariz.), Andrea D. Muschenborn (Bloomington, Ind.), Landon Nash (College Station, Texas), Jason M. Szafron (Hamden, Conn.) and Todd Landsman (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for a tissue channel includes a device frame, a shape memory polymer foam segment coupled to the device frame, and an attachment structure coupled to the device fr...