ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,177, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to LIPOCOSM LLC (Key Biscayne, Fla.).
"Rigidifying brace" was invented by Roger K. Khouri (Key Biscayne, Fla.), Khalil R. Khouri (Key Biscayne, Fla.) and Thomas Morgan Biggs Jr. (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brace for retaining an organ in an expanded state configured to adhere and substantially conform to an external surface of the organ includes an inner layer, an outer layer, and at least one sheet of thin malleable material forming a middle layer between the inner layer and outer layer, the at least one sheet being enclosed and configured to rigidify and maintain the organ in an ex...