ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,121, issued on June 23, was assigned to Append Medical Ltd. (Or Yehuda, Israel).
"Body lumen wall invagination" was invented by Zachi Berger (Nes Ziona, Israel), Shay Raviv (Zur Hadassa, Israel), Oded Meiri (Moshav Ram-On, Israel), Gal Atarot (Kfar Saba, Israel), Gal Yamin (Givatayim, Israel), Liz Zinger (Kiryat Ono, Israel) and Nadav Agian (Kfar Yona, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for left atrial appendage (LAA) invagination, including: convexing a portion of the LAA wall into the LAA, wherein the convexing includes convexing the LAA wall portion by applying suction from a collapsible suction cup contacting the LAA ...