ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,134, issued on May 27, was assigned to V-Wave Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).
"Asymmetric shunt for redistributing atrial blood volume" was invented by Neal Eigler (Agoura Hills, Calif.), James Whiting (Los Angeles) and Nir Nae (Binyamina, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An asymmetric device for regulating blood volume distribution across a patient's atrial septum having a first expandable end region and a second expandable end region. The first expandable end region is transitionable from a contracted delivery state to an expanded deployed state in which the first expandable end region extends into the patient's left atrium and an in...