US Patent Issued to Nephronyx on Jan. 27 for "Acute and chronic devices for modifying flow in body lumens and methods of use thereof" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,249, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Nephronyx Ltd. (Modiin, Israel).

"Acute and chronic devices for modifying flow in body lumens and methods of use thereof" was invented by Menashe Yacoby (Shoham, Israel), Dren Rotman (Holon, Israel), Sagy Karavany (Kibbutz Dvir, Israel), Tanhum Feld (Moshav Merhavya, Israel) and Eyal Teichman (Hod-Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The acute and chronic devices and methods described herein include a body lumen fluid flow modulator including an upstream flow accelerator and a downstream flow decelerator. The fluid flow modulator preferably includes one or more openings that define a...