US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences Innovation (Israel) on Sept. 16 for "Percutaneous tissue anchor techniques" (Israeli, American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,772, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Innovation (Israel) Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).

"Percutaneous tissue anchor techniques" was invented by Yaron Herman (Givat Ada, Israel), Yuval Zipory (Modi'in, Israel), Slava Starobinsky (Netanya, Israel), Tal Reich (Moledet, Israel), Ehud Aviv (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Alexei Koifman (Melbourne, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System for use with tissue of a heart comprises a tissue anchor comprising an engaging head that has a coupling eyelet that defines an eyelet plane, and a helical tissue-coupling element, reversibly anchorable to the tissue, and having a cent...