ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,403, issued on March 24, was assigned to ENDOSTREAM MEDICAL LTD. (Or Akiva, Israel).
"Devices for treating vascular malformations" was invented by Danel Mayer (Tel Aviv, Israel), Alon May (Caesarea, Israel) and Yuval Shezifi (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided for treating a vascular malformation. The apparatus includes an orifice section, an intra-vascular-malformation docking section, and a connecting section. The apparatus is configured such that, when unconstrained the orifice section is shaped so as to define an orifice-section curve that winds at least 2.5 turns around an orifice-section cent...