US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on Aug. 4 for "Implantable sphincter assistance device with shell-to-shell orientation controlled by fields of adjacent magnets" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,122, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Implantable sphincter assistance device with shell-to-shell orientation controlled by fields of adjacent magnets" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio) and Kevin M. Fiebig (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes at least one link and a plurality of beads. The plurality of beads is joined using the at least one link. The housing includes a magnet chamber. The magnet is configured to emit a magnetic field to magnetically bias the loop toward the contracted configuration. The magnet is sized and configured to ...