US Patent Issued to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center on Dec. 16 for "Thermally activated pessary" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,213, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc. (Boston).

"Thermally activated pessary" was invented by Mallika Anand (Brookline, Mass.) and Ara Nazarian (Wellesley, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and apparatus to insert and remove a thermally activated vaginal pessary, by employing a nitinol core material that is integrated into the construction of the thermally activated vaginal pessary and configured to increase in radial size upon contact with body temperature by undergoing a configurational phase change in the underlying nitinol core material."

The patent was filed on Au...