US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Oct. 14 for "Pump assembly for a penile prosthesis" (Wisconsin, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,339, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Pump assembly for a penile prosthesis" was invented by Mark Edward DiLoreto (Chaska, Minn.) and James Ryan Mujwid (Hudson, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, an inflatable penile prosthesis includes a fluid reservoir configured to hold fluid, an inflatable member, and a pump assembly configured to transfer the fluid between the fluid reservoir and the inflatable member. The pump assembly includes a pump bulb, a valve body, a valve disposed within the valve body, a first fluid port configured to be fluidly coupled to t...