ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,390, issued on May 20, was assigned to V-Wave Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).
"Device and method for controlling in-vivo pressure" was invented by Dan Rottenberg (Haifa, Israel), Ori J. Braun (Palo Alto, Calif.), Avraham Aba Zakay (Zichron-Yaakov, Israel), Ascher Shmulewitz (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Yoram Rozy (Caesarea, Israel) and Gad Keren (Kiryat-Ono, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A differential pressure regulating device is provided for controlling in-vivo pressure in a body, and in particularly in a heart. The device may include a shunt being positioned between two or more lumens in a body, to enable fluids to flow between the lumen...