ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,100, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Endoron Medical Ltd. (Kfar Saba, Israel).
"Intravascular device for anchoring a graft to tissue" was invented by Nir D. Dahan (Jerusalem), Eyal Teichman (Hod HaSharon, Israel) and Tanhum Feld (Moshav Merhavia, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tissue anchoring devices including a radially expandable frame having a plurality of longitudinal struts and a plurality of deployable anchors configured to penetrate a stent graft and tissue, and systems for delivering and deploying the tissue anchoring devices at a target location are provided. The adjacent longitudinal struts are interconnected by ...