ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,175, issued on March 25, was assigned to Gals Bio Ltd. (Mevaseret Zion, Israel).
"Intravaginal device" was invented by Hilla Shaviv (Mevaseret Zion, Israel), Nadav Cohen (Haifa, Israel), Omer Shezifi (Haifa, Israel) and Daniel Rosenblum (Ramat Hasharon, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intravaginal device (1600) includes arms (1602) and struts (1604). Each strut of the struts (1604) has a first end (1610) coupled to a shaft (1606) arranged to slide in a tube (1608) and a second end (1612) coupled to one of the arms (1602). A string (1616) is coupled to the shaft (1606). The arms (1602) have a stowed orientation in which the ...