US Patent Issued to Cilag GmbH International on March 3 for "Implantable sphincter assistance device with bimodal circumferential restriction force threshold" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,406, issued on March 3, was assigned to Cilag GmbH International (Zug, Switzerland).

"Implantable sphincter assistance device with bimodal circumferential restriction force threshold" was invented by Frederick E. Shelton IV (Hillsboro, Ohio), Kevin M. Fiebig (Cincinnati) and Tylor C. Muhlenkamp (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a plurality of beads and a plurality of interconnection elements. Each bead includes a housing and a magnet. Each interconnection element includes a main body extending between a pair of ends, and a pair of heads each positioned at a respective end and received within a bead. The...