US Patent Issued to TEL HASHOMER MEDICAL RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICES on July 29 for "Fallopian tube retrievable device" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,077, issued on July 29, was assigned to TEL HASHOMER MEDICAL RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICES LTD. (Ramat Gan, Israel).

"Fallopian tube retrievable device" was invented by Shlomi Cohen (Michmoret, Israel), Tamir Ben David (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Tovy Sivan (Kfar Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contraceptive device is provided including an occluding component for deployment in a tubal lumen of a reproductive organ. The device includes an expandable frame reversibly expandable from a collapsed state to an expanded state and a barrier supported by the expandable frame. In the expanded state the barrier is disposed betwe...