ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,062, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Magenta Medical Ltd (Kadima, Israel).
"Impeller and cage" was invented by Ehud Schwammenthal (Ra'anana, Israel), Yosi Tuval (Even Yehuda, Israel) and Daniel Glozman (Kfar Yona, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are described including an impeller configured, in a radially-expanded configuration thereof, to pump a fluid by rotating. A radially expandable cage is disposed around the impeller, such that, in radially-expanded configurations of the impeller and the cage, the impeller is separated from an inner surface of the cage. The impeller is disposed within the cage such...