US Patent Issued to Tufts Medical Center, Cx Therapeutics on Feb. 3 for "Cervical support system and method of use" (Massachusetts, California, Oregon, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,143, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Tufts Medical Center Inc. (Boston) and Cx Therapeutics Inc. (Lexington, Mass.).

"Cervical support system and method of use" was invented by Michael House (Lexington, Mass.), Errol Norwitz (Newton, Mass.), Dwayne E. Hickman Jr. (Berkeley, Calif.), Christopher Mccaslin (Portland, Ore.), Christopher O. Evans (Amherst, N.H.), Genevieve R. K. Laing (San Francisco) and Devon C. Campbell (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for use in a cerclage procedure includes a flexible support member and a plurality of compression members disposed along the flexible support member. Each of...