US Patent Issued to Muffin on Dec. 23 for "Belt for applying pressure to a bodily organ" (North Carolina, Indiana, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,278, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Muffin Inc. (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Belt for applying pressure to a bodily organ" was invented by Shaun Davis Gittard (Winston-Salem, N.C.), John C. Sigmon Jr. (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Gregory James Hardy (Asheville, N.C.), Jeremy T. Newkirk (West Lafayette, Ind.), Neal E. Fearnot (West Lafayette, Ind.), William J. Havel (West Lafayette, Ind.), Rita Hadley (Otterbein, Ind.) and Yun Zhou (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Among other things, there are disclosed embodiments of belts or bands that can be used in treatments for tricuspid valve regurgitation. In some embodiments, suc...