ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,164, issued on April 29, was assigned to LYDUS MEDICAL LTD. (Raanana, Israel).
"Anastomosis device" was invented by Kamal Daas (Tira, Israel), Muhamad Mansur (Tira, Israel), Dean Ad-El (Mazor, Israel), Jessica Weiss (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Boaz Harari (Ganey Tikva, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an anastomosis arrangement for joining two opposite stumps of a tubular organ in a streamlined anastomosis procedure. The arrangement includes a pair of axially symmetric stump-coupling members that accommodate pairs of counterpart suturing needles, linked together by common suturing threads, and manipulable by a needle-manip...