ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,459, issued on June 30.
"Penile implant and method of implantation" was invented by Greydon Wesley Nedblake (St Petersburg, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A body implantable penile prosthetic assembly includes a reservoir, a penile implant, and a pump. The reservoir is for containing a saline solution. The penile implant is penile implant operable to shift between a flaccid state in which the penile implant is at least partially depleted of the saline solution and an erect state in which the penile implant receives the saline solution from the one or more reservoirs. The pump is configured to generate pressure that causes the sa...