US Patent Issued to ENDOSTREAM MEDICAL on Aug. 26 for "Device for restricting blood flow to aneurysms" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,733, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to ENDOSTREAM MEDICAL LTD. (Or Akiva, Israel).

"Device for restricting blood flow to aneurysms" was invented by Danel Mayer (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Alon May (Caesarea, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-occlusive device is provided that includes a coilable section and a docking section. When deployed from a microcatheter within a wide-neck vascular aneurysm, the coilable section is configured to become coiled into a coil defining a sequence of concentric loops, and to bridge a neck of the aneurysm so as to at least partially cover an orifice of the aneurysm, when in use. The docking sectio...