US Patent Issued to Prodeon Medical on July 7 for "Delivery systems and devices for the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia and related lower urinary tract symptoms" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,771, issued on July 7, was assigned to Prodeon Medical Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Delivery systems and devices for the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia and related lower urinary tract symptoms" was invented by Jimmy Jen (Saratoga, Calif.), Gary Daniel Zaretzka (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kenneth Chih-Ping Chang (San Jose, Calif.) and Kondapavulur T. Venkateswara-Rao (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and systems are disclosed for managing and/or treating body tissues obstructing a hollow body lumen, including the prostatic lobe tissues obstructing the urethra, for example conditions including benign prostatic hyp...