US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on Aug. 4 for "Tools for transurethral deployment and fixation of graft for the management and treatment of urethral strictures" (Maryland, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,236, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Tools for transurethral deployment and fixation of graft for the management and treatment of urethral strictures" was invented by Chanya Godzich Elakkad (Baltimore), Teja Maruvada (Baltimore), Joseph A. Pia (Baltimore), Shravya Srigiri (Minneapolis), Kendall Covington (Baltimore) and Edward James Wright (Severna Park, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment in accordance with the present invention provides a device and method for the treatment of urethral stricture. The present invention places and holds a graft at an incised urethral stricture ...