ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,158, issued on July 8, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Innovation (Israel) Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).
"Annuloplasty ring delivery catheters" was invented by Tal Sheps (Givat Shmuel, Israel), Tal Hammer (Ramat Gan, Israel), Tal Reich (Moledet, Israel), Amir Gross (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel), Yuval Zipory (Modi'in, Israel), Oz Cabiri (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Yosef Gross (Moshav Mazor, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus is provided for repairing a cardiac valve, the apparatus including a catheter sized for delivery through vasculature of a subject and an elongated and flexible annuloplasty structure having an annuloplasty ...