US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Aug. 11 for "Implant devices, systems, and methods for annulus reduction" (Minnesota, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,553, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Implant devices, systems, and methods for annulus reduction" was invented by Joshua Mark Inouye (Brooklyn Park, Minn.), Levi Wolterstorff (Saint Paul, Minn.) and Padraig J. Savage (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable device which shifts between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration. The implantable device may be delivered transluminally in a collapsed delivery configuration to a treatment site, whereupon the implantable device may be expanded to a deployment configuration. As the implantable devi...