US Patent Issued to Aerin Medical on May 26 for "Soft palate treatment" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,073, issued on May 26, was assigned to Aerin Medical Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Soft palate treatment" was invented by Charlton Yih (San Mateo, Calif.), Yen Hai Tieu (San Jose, Calif.), Andrew Frazier (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Scott J. Wolf (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Fred Dinger (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating a soft palate in a patient may involve advancing a tissue treatment portion of a soft palate treatment device through the patient's mouth, contacting a treatment surface of the tissue treatment portion with mucosal tissue of the soft palate, and delivering energy from the tissue treatment portion ...