US Patent Issued to Mentor Worldwide on Feb. 10 for "Systems, devices and methods for aspirating fluids that collect around tissue expanders that are implanted in breast tissue" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,176, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Mentor Worldwide LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Systems, devices and methods for aspirating fluids that collect around tissue expanders that are implanted in breast tissue" was invented by Hector Javier Toro Estrella (Lake Forest, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of removing fluid from breast tissue surrounding a tissue expander includes identifying a location of an injection port of a tissue expander, and obtaining a needle including a needle shaft defining a lumen, the needle including a closed tip at the distal end of the needle shaft and at least one lateral opening formed in an outer...