ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,212, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to HEMODYNAMX-TECHNOLOGIES LTD (Moddin, Israel).

"Aortic pressure loss reduction apparatus and methods" was invented by Sagy Karavany (Kibbutz Dvir, Israel), Menashe Yacoby (Shoham, Israel) and Tanhum Feld (Moshav Merhavya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are described including an aortic pressure-loss-reduction device (20) configured to be implanted inside an ascending aorta of a subject. The aortic pressure-loss-reduction device includes a frame (52) that defines an upstream anchor portion (33F), an intermediate portion (23F) configured to define a conduit (26) theret...