ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,003, issued on July 8, was assigned to Momentis Surgical Ltd (Or-Yehuda, Israel).
"Surgical drape" was invented by Dvir Cohen (Ramot-Menashe, Israel) and Yaron Levinson (Tel-Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A folded surgical drape, including: a tubular axially collected sheath having a distal end and a proximal end and a lumen between said distal end and said proximal end, wherein the axially collected sheath comprising at least one distal opening axially collected into said lumen and, wherein the axially collected sheath is axially folded to form at least one valley fold surrounding the distal opening sized and shaped for ...