US Patent Issued to Smartweave on March 17 for "Stress urinary incontinence treatment medical implant" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,920, issued on March 17, was assigned to Smartweave Inc. (Boston).

"Stress urinary incontinence treatment medical implant" was invented by Mohammad Sufyan (Nagar New Delhi, India), Rajeev Malhotra (Newton, Mass.), Lee Richstone (New York) and Manish Vira (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an implant that includes inflatable anchors that are configured to assume an inflated state and a relaxed state. The implant includes a tubular member mechanically coupled to one or more anchors of the inflatable anchors. The tubular member includes a lumen that provides a passageway for circulating a fluid thro...