ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,199, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Davol Inc. (Warwick, R.I.).
"Prosthetic repair fabric" was invented by Augustus Felix (Cranston, R.I.) and Michael Ligeikis (Marlton, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The repair fabric includes a dual bar warp knit mesh for use in repairing soft tissue and muscle wall defects, including hernia repair and chest wall reconstruction. The repair fabric may be produced according to a first bar pattern chain of 4/2 4/6 4/2 6/8 6/4 6/8 of first filaments and a second bar pattern chain of 6/8 2/0 6/8 4/2 8/10 4/2 of second filaments. The diameter of the first filaments being different from the diamete...