ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,630, issued on Nov. 3.
"Method for using rail anchor system for transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt procedure" was invented by Jacob Cynamon (Suffern, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rail and/or anchor system and method for transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt procedures. The system includes a rail line that is anchorable to surrounding tissue and used as a rail to guide the displacement of at least one needle and an outer sheath. The rail line may include an inflatable balloon that is configured to selectively anchor the anchor line to surrounding tissue by the balloon being inflated and unanchor the anchor l...