US Patent Issued to MYOPOWERS MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES FRANCE on May 26 for "Medical-grade actuator having a modular structure and medical device comprising same" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,013, issued on May 26, was assigned to MYOPOWERS MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES FRANCE SAS (Besancon, France).

"Medical-grade actuator having a modular structure and medical device comprising same" was invented by Christophe Aubert (Cudrefin, France), Fabian Kaegi (Lausanne, France) and Francois Cabaud (Ecole Valentin, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an artificial contractile device comprising at least one contractile element (1) comprising a flexible strip (4) extending in a longitudinal direction and a closure (6) for forming the contractile element (1) into a closed loop around a hollow body organ, the ...