ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,005, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Penile implant for neophallus" was invented by Jessica Elizabeth Felton (Minneapolis), Thomas Andrew Albrecht (Edina, Minn.), James Ryan Mujwid (Hudson, Wis.), Samuel L. Will (Victoria, Minn.), Randall Paul Rowland (Eden Prairie, Minn.), John Anders Bostrom (Minneapolis), Julie Andreen (Huntersville, S.C.), Grady Jensen (Chanhassen, Minn.), Nickolas Dalbec (Edina, Minn.) and Paden Reed (Crystal, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, an implantable device for penile construction includes a penile implant having a distal ...