ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,246, issued on July 1, was assigned to ESCALA MEDICAL LTD. (Misgav, Israel).
"Anchor delivery system and method" was invented by Edit Goldberg (Zichron Yaaqov, Israel), Hagay Weisbrod (Jordan Valley, Israel), Moran Sobol (Haifa, Israel) and Shahar Harari (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for affixing a first tissue to a second tissue and methods of manufacturing and using the same. The apparatus comprises an elongated needle; a handle disposed at a proximal end of the elongated needle; a superelastic anchor disposed within the elongated needle, the anchor comprises: at least one normally-expanded elongated ...