US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences Innovation (Israel) on Feb. 18 for "Tissue anchor handling systems and methods" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,096, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Innovation (Israel) Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).

"Tissue anchor handling systems and methods" was invented by Haim Brauon (Beit Dagan, Israel), Ehud Aviv (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Brian Patrick Murphy (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Praveen De Silva (Irvine, Calif.), Kevin K. Dang (Garden Grove, Calif.), Omar Fawzi Azanki (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Tomer Golan (Laguna Hills, Calif.), Aaron Anan Ness (Stamford, Conn.), Tal Reich (Moledet, Israel), Luis Molina (Corona, Calif.) and Sam Shafigh (Mission Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided for use with a t...