ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,905, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Ark Surgical Ltd. (Nazareth, Israel).
"Tissue containment device for use in surgical procedures" was invented by Gill Bar-Yoseph (Haifa, Israel) and David Bleicher (Tel-Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tissue containment device (10) for isolating tissue from surrounding tissue during a surgical procedure to remove the tissue includes a bag (12) formed by one or more walls (14) defining a containment compartment (16) and an opening (18) for accessing the containment compartment. Each wall (14) is formed from at least two layers including an inner layer (20) facing the containment c...