Patent 7300428 was granted and assigned to Aeris Therapeutics on November, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Devices, compositions, and methods for achieving non-surgical lung volume reduction (e.g., bronchoscopic lung volume reduction (BLVR)) are described. BLVR can be carried out by collapsing a region of the lung, adhering one portion of the collapsed region to another, and promoting fibrosis in or around the adherent tissue.