US Patent Issued to UROMEMS on Sept. 8 for "Implantable medical device" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,984, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to UROMEMS (Grenoble, France).

"Implantable medical device" was invented by Hamid Lamraoui (Vaulnaveys le Haut, France) and Thierry Ho (Saint Egreve, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a medical device comprising: -a sealed casing (1), suited to being implanted in the body of a human or animal patient, -an inflatable element (3), -a fluidic circuit comprising a fluid reservoir (5) having a variable fluid volume and arranged inside the casing with a tube (2) between the reservoir and the inflatable element, -an actuator arranged inside the casing to selectively vary the ...