US Patent Issued to MICROVENTION on Oct. 27 for "Implant delivery device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,215, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to MICROVENTION INC. (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).

"Implant delivery device" was invented by Heath Bowman (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), Jake Le (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) and Matthew Fitz (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for delivering an implant within a patient is disclosed. The activation of the heater coil causes the degradation, melting or reduction of a component that brings the heater coil into or out of electrical contact with another component, or causes the individual loops of the coil to contact each other, thereby resulting a notable change in resistance in the circuit supplyi...