ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,010, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Innovation (Israel) Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).
"Multiple anchor delivery tool" was invented by Oz Cabiri (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Amir Gross (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel), Tal Hammer (Ramat Gan, Israel), Tal Reich (Moledet, Israel) and Ehud Aviv (Costa Mesa, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An annuloplasty implant is implanted along a valve annulus of a heart of a subject using a driver that includes a flexible shaft and a deployment element at a distal end of the shaft by, for each of the anchors in turn, beginning with the distal anchor: (1) using the driver to move the anchor...