US Patent Issued to V-Wave on March 18 for "Devices with dimensions that can be reduced and increased in vivo, and methods of making and using the same" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,529, issued on March 18, was assigned to V-Wave Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).

"Devices with dimensions that can be reduced and increased in vivo, and methods of making and using the same" was invented by Nir Nae (Binyamina, Israel), Neal Eigler (Agoura Hills, Calif.), Nathan Bukhdruker (Haifa, Israel), James S Whiting (Los Angeles), Lior Rosen (Or Akiva, Israel), Erez Rozenfeld (Shoham, Israel) and Werner Hafelfinger (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices are provided with an internal dimension that can be reduced and increased in vivo. In one example, an interatrial shunt for placement at an atrial septum of a pat...