US Patent Issued to Coloplast on Sept. 15 for "Penile prosthesis with a scaffold nested inside a body implantable in a penis" (Massachusetts, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,036, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Coloplast A/S (Humlebaek, Denmark).

"Penile prosthesis with a scaffold nested inside a body implantable in a penis" was invented by Frederick William Hamlin (Cambridge, Mass.), John J. Allen (Mendota Heights, Minn.), Rahul Dilip Sathe (Needham, Mass.) and Neal Poucher (North Oaks, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A penile prosthesis includes a first penile implant implantable into a first corpora cavernosum and a second penile implant implantable into a second corpora cavernosum, and a pump assembly coupled to the implants by tubing. Each implant includes a tubular film sealed in a liquid...