ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,468, issued on April 14, was assigned to ENDO GI MEDICAL LTD. (Nazareth, Israel).
"Deployment of multiple biliary stents" was invented by Elad Einav (Salit, Israel) and Ronny Barak (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus (20) is provided for use with a guidewire (12). The apparatus includes a guide tube (22) having a guidewire-engaging portion (122) and a slit (28) extending proximally along a wall of the guide tube, from a distal end (32) of the tube, a proximal end (29) of the slit being located distally to a proximal end (30) of the tube. A first stent (52) surrounds the tube and is advanceable together with th...