US Patent Issued to Medtimo on Sept. 15 for "Intragastric device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,057, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Medtimo Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Intragastric device" was invented by Mark C. Brister (Encinitas, Calif.), Paul D. Faucher (Escondido, Calif.), Neil R. Drake (San Diego), Andrew P. Rasdal (San Diego), Matthew S. Lake (Carlsbad, Calif.), Dubravka Markovic (San Diego), Amy D.L. VandenBerg (San Diego), Antonio C. Llevares (Chula Vista, Calif.) and Josefina Nider (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods for treating obesity are provided. More particularly, intragastric devices and methods of fabricating, deploying, inflating, monitoring, and retrieving the same are provid...