ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,918, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Innovation (Israel) Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).
"Anchor magazine" was invented by Yuval Zipory (Modi'in, Israel), Alexei Koifman (Melbourne, Australia), Ehud Aviv (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Tal Reich (Moledet, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anchor-handling device comprises a housing shaped to define a channel having an anchor-storage zone and a proximal opening. A tissue anchor is stored in the anchor-storage zone. The anchor-handing device is configured such that, while the tissue anchor is stored in the anchor-storage zone, the tissue anchor is movable out of the an...