ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,915, issued on March 25, was assigned to CARDIOVIA LTD (Nazareth, Israel).

"Non-penetrating tissue separator" was invented by Ziv Menshes (Moshav Kidron, Israel), Or Hazan (Yehud, Israel), Maor Rosenberg (Haifa, Israel), Ran Eliaz (Tsur Hadasa, Israel), Yonatan Avraham Demma (Jerusalem) and Yair Elitzur (Jerusalem).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to devices and methods for separating tissues to create an anatomical access space in the body, in particular, for providing an access to the space between the pericardium and the epicardium."

The patent was filed on May 13, 2020, under Application No. 17/610,33...