ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,114, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Nasal implants and systems and method of use" was invented by Scott J. Baron (Menlo Park, Calif.), Michael H. Rosenthal (Menlo Park, Calif.), Brian Domecus (San Francisco), Piyush Arora (Fremont, Calif.), Michael Stephan Mirizzi (San Jose, Calif.) and Rohit Kulbhushan Girotra (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are implants for placing in a body, tools for delivering the implants, and systems and methods for using implants and tools for placing in a body and more particularly to nasal implants, tools for delivering nasal implants, and syste...