ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,024, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Nephronyx Ltd. (Modiin, Israel).
"Flow modification devices in body lumens" was invented by Sagy Karavany (Kibbutz Dvir, Israel), Oren Moshe Rotman (Holon, Israel), Eyal Teichman (Hod-Hasharon, Israel), Tanhum Feld (Moshav Merhavya, Israel), Menashe Yacoby (Shoham, Israel) and Boaz Nishri (Maagan Michael, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The 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 gap/entrainment re...