US Patent Issued to V-Wave on July 8 for "Devices and methods for providing passage between heart chambers" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,912, issued on July 8, was assigned to V-Wave Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).

"Devices and methods for providing passage between heart chambers" was invented by Tamir Ben-David (Tel Aviv, Israel), Neal Eigler (Agoura Hills, Calif.), Nir Nae (Binyamina, Israel), Lior Rosen (Zikhron Ya'akov, Israel), Erez Rozenfeld (Shoham, Israel) and James S. Whiting (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for providing a passage between a first and second heart chamber is provided. The device includes a middle region having first and second ends, a lumen extending therethrough having a longitudinal axis, a first end region coupled to the first ...