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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2021
Applicant:
Epitomee Medical Ltd., Caesarea, IL;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Epitomee Medical Ltd., Caesarea, IL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 5/003 (2013.01); A61F 5/0036 (2013.01);
Abstract
The disclosure provides a biodegradable device, administered to a patient in a compact ingestible encapsulated form. The device is self-expandable in the stomach upon contact with liquid, to assume an expanded, voluminous configuration within the stomach. The devices have a folded configuration in which intake is facilitated by the patient, and are designed to unfold and self-expand in the stomach after intake due to expansion of a plurality of expandable zones that comprise one or more gel-forming materials. The disclosure provides such devices, methods of their manufacture, as well as base units thereof.