US Patent Issued to Free Flow Medical on Feb. 24 for "Devices, treatments and methods to restore tissue elastic recoil" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,099, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Free Flow Medical Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Devices, treatments and methods to restore tissue elastic recoil" was invented by Mark L. Mathis (Fremont, Calif.), Michael W. Lau (Menlo Park, Calif.), Kevin Mitz (Campbell, Calif.) and Ryan Braxtan (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pulmonary treatment devices, systems and methods of use are provided which take into account the vast tissue damage of advanced COPD sufferers and provide treatments designed specifically to treat the particularly compromised lung tissues that are present in these patients. These treatments reduce trapped air ...