ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,407, issued on March 3, was assigned to Bar Evyatar (Kibbutz Beit Oren, Israel).
"Reversible occlusion device, system and method" was invented by Bar Evyatar (Kibbutz Beit Oren, Israel), Amit Tubishevitz (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Netta Hirshberg (Givatayim, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reversible occlusion device configured for being introduced inside a lumen to selectively occlude it, the reversible occlusion device includes a docking unit configured for being docked in the lumen; the docking unit has an upstream end and a downstream end associated with an upstream portion and a downstream portion of the lumen respectively, ...