ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,210, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Neptune Medical Inc. (Burlingame, Calif.).
"Pressure rigidization apparatuses and methods" was invented by Spencer J. Witte (San Francisco), Kai Y. Pohlhammer (San Ramon, Calif.), Neal Tanner (Austin, Texas), Mark C. Scheeff (Oakland, Calif.), Alexander Q. Tilson (Burlingame, Calif.), James M. Hayes (La Honda, Calif.) and Afshan S. Chandani (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pressure control systems/sub-systems that improve an operation and safety of dynamically rigidizing devices may control an application of pressure to rigidize/de-rigidize a pressure-rigidizing medical device...