US Patent Issued to UROMEMS on Feb. 17 for "Occlusive cuff and implantable occlusive system comprising such a cuff" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,324, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to UROMEMS (Grenoble, France).

"Occlusive cuff and implantable occlusive system comprising such a cuff" was invented by Hamid Lamraoui (Grenoble, France) and Christopher Masri (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an occlusive cuff for selectively occluding an anatomical duct. The occlusive cuff has a band suited to surrounding an anatomical duct, provided with a closing device suited to maintaining the band wound upon itself over a determined length and an inflatable reservoir arranged on an inner face of the band. The cuff is characterised in that the inflatab...