ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,561, issued on June 3, was assigned to White Swell Medical Ltd (Kibbutz Shefayim, Israel).

"Devices and methods for treating edema" was invented by Yaacov Nitzan (Hertzelia, Israel), Ronan Keating (Galway, Ireland), Shahaf Marmur (Tel Aviv, Israel), Or Inbar (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Eamon Brady (Galway, Ireland), Gerry McCaffrey (Galway, Ireland), Reed Williston (Galway, Ireland) and Sagi Raz (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to devices and methods for the treatment of edema, which devices use a restrictor for flow compensation. Devices and methods of the invention further use a flow-restrictor in the ...