US Patent Issued to ViaCyte on Nov. 3 for "Tools and instruments for use with implantable encapsulation devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,704, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ViaCyte Inc. (San Diego).

"Tools and instruments for use with implantable encapsulation devices" was invented by Vincent So (San Diego), Erik Olson (San Diego), Michael Scott (San Diego), Chad Green (San Diego), Giacomo Strollo (San Diego), Gustavo Prado (San Diego), Craig McGreevy (San Diego), Laura Martinson (San Diego) and Donald Koenig (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein describe tools and instruments for holding, transferring, delivering, deploying an implantable device and methods and means of aseptically storing and shipping the implantable device including but not...