ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,128, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Nortiva Bio Inc. (Lexington, Mass.).

"Gastric residence systems having a filament for improved gastric residence" was invented by Rosemary Kanasty (Cambridge, Mass.), Tyler Grant (Arlington, Mass.), Jung Hoon Yang (Watertown, Mass.), David C. Dufour (Watertown, Mass.) and Erik Robert Waldemar Ryde (Watertown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are gastric residence systems comprising: a core; a plurality of arms connected to the core at a proximal end through a plurality of linker components, one linker component of the plurality of linker components corresponding to each arm of th...