US Patent Issued to ZENFLOW on July 21 for "Systems and methods for implants and deployment devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,654, issued on July 21, was assigned to ZENFLOW INC. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for implants and deployment devices" was invented by Marcel Song Sicotte (San Francisco), Shreya Mehta (San Francisco), Austin M. Bly (San Clemente, Calif.) and Ronald Jabba (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Benign prosthetic hyperplasia (BPH) is a non-cancerous enlargement of the prostate gland. Treatment options for BPH include medication, surgery (e.g., removal of enlarged prostate tissue), and minimally invasive procedures (e.g., needle ablation, electrovaporization, thermotherapy, and stent insertion). Minimally invasive...