ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,821, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Fractyl Health Inc. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Tissue treatment devices, systems, and methods" was invented by Michael Biasella (Medford, Mass.), Sara Morneau (Lincoln, Mass.), Jay Caplan (Boston), Michelle Riches (Leominster, Mass.), Philip Levin (Storrs, Conn.), Ryan Cahill (Scituate, Mass.), Keith Boudreau (North Andover, Mass.), Harith Rajagopalan (Wellesley Hills, Mass.), Brendan Zarechian (Reading, Mass.), Jeffrey Lesica (Holliston, Mass.), R. Maxwell Flaherty (Topsfield, Mass.) and J. Christopher Flaherty (Nottingham, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices and methods for perf...