US Patent Issued to Bentley InnoMed on Sept. 8 for "Axial sharp needle reentry device" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,228, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Bentley InnoMed GmbH (Hechingen, Germany).

"Axial sharp needle reentry device" was invented by Dan Rottenberg (Haifa, Israel), Yossi Pesis (Pardes Hana, Israel) and Avraham Matzkin (Kochav Yair, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter, such as for use for total occlusion crossing and lumen reentry, incorporate a retractable long flexible nitinol curved needle at the catheter distal end. The needle is straight when withdrawn inside the catheter. When pushed forward, the needle is deployed by protruding axially out, directly from the distal tip, through a mechanism used to direct the cur...