US Patent Issued to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES on Sept. 23 for "Tissue compression anchors" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,751, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Tissue compression anchors" was invented by Noa Axelrod Manela (Kadima, Israel), Boaz Manash (Givat Ada, Israel) and David Maimon (Atlit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cardiac device comprises a first anchoring element configured to be attached to a first side of a tissue wall, a second anchoring element configured to be attached to a second side of the tissue wall, and a cinching device. The cinching device is configured to attach to the first anchoring element and the second anchoring element and apply force to the first anchoring elem...