US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences Innovation (Israel) on April 15 for "Location indication system for implant-delivery tool" (Israeli, American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,618, issued on April 15, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Innovation (Israel) Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).

"Location indication system for implant-delivery tool" was invented by Tal Sheps (Givat Shmuel, Israel), Tal Hammer (Ramat Gan, Israel), Tal Reich (Moledet, Israel), Ehud Aviv (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Amir Gross (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel), Yaron Herman (Givat Ada, Israel), Alexei Koifman (Melbourne, Australia) and Yuval Zipory (Modi'in, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tubular system is configured to transluminally deliver an implant comprising a tissue anchor having a coupling head and a distal helical tissue-engaging element,...