ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,907, issued on March 31, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Innovation (Israel) Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).
"Self-locking winch" was invented by Gad Tennenbaum (Kiryat Ono, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a transcatheterally-advanceable driver and an implant. The implant includes a winch, and a tether that has an end portion. The winch includes a spool, a mount, and a driver interface engageable and drivable by the driver. The mount is coupled to the driver interface such that driving of the driver interface by the driver rotates the mount about a rotation axis. The spool is coupled to the tether, and defines ...