ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,626, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to V-Wave Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).
"Shunt for redistributing atrial blood volume" was invented by Neal Eigler (Agoura Hills, Calif.), Nir Nae (Binyamina, Israel), Lior Rosen (Zikhron Ya'akov, Israel), Werner Hafelfinger (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Erez Rozenfeld (Shoham, Israel), James S. Whiting (Los Angeles), Menashe Yacoby (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Yaacov Nitzan (Hertzelia, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for implanting a shunt for regulating blood pressure between a patient's left and right atria are provided. The shunt comprises an anchor having a neck region, first and s...