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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2019
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Andrew Bellinger, Wellesley, MA (US);
Shiyi Zhang, Shanghai, CN;
Carlo Giovanni Traverso, Newton, MA (US);
Robert S. Langer, Newton, MA (US);
Stacy Mo, Darien, IL (US);
Tyler Grant, Arlington, MA (US);
Mousa Jafari, Waltham, MA (US);
Dean Liang Glettig, Cambridge, MA (US);
Angela DiCiccio, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lowell L. Wood, Jr., Bellevue, WA (US);
Philip A. Eckhoff, Kirkland, WA (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
Certain embodiments involve gastric residence structures which can be administered to a subject (e.g., a patient) in a configuration constrained by a retaining element, and configured to mediate a change in shape when unconstrained by the retaining element to assume a configuration in the stomach in which is retained and unable to pass through the gastric pyloric orifice of the subject under gastrointestinal physiological conditions. The residence structures can be loaded with an agent for release in the stomach.