ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,425, issued on March 25, 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 using a purge-free system. The invention provides devices and methods useful for treating edema by means of an indwelling cat...