ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,847, issued on May 13, was assigned to CARDIAC SUCCESS LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Implantable ventricular band for improving cardiac function" was invented by David Neustadter (Nof Ayalon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods of improving cardiac function, including delivering a band to a ventricle of a heart via at least one catheter; guiding the band through the heart to form a loop; pulling walls of the ventricle of the heart inwards by tightening the band following formation of the loop; following tightening, locking the band in the loop; and removing the at least one catheter from the heart...