ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,918, issued on July 29, was assigned to V-Wave Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).

"Interatrial shunt having physiologic sensor" was invented by Neal Eigler (Agoura Hills, Calif.), Erez Rozenfeld (Shoham, Israel), Nir Nae (Binyamina, Israel), Nathan Bukhdruker (Haifa, Israel), Lior Rosen (Zikhron Ya'akov, Israel), James S. Whiting (Los Angeles), John Wardle (San Clemente, Calif.) and Werner Hafelfinger (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Interatrial shunts having incorporated physiologic sensors are provided for monitoring and treating cardiovascular syndromes, including heart failure and pulmonary hypertension, in which the o...