US Patent Issued to HEMODYNAMX-TECHNOLOGIES on March 3 for "Aortic pressure loss reduction apparatus and methods" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,505, issued on March 3, was assigned to HEMODYNAMX-TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Modiin, 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 implanting an aortic pressure-loss-reduction device in a subject's ascending aorta. A frame of the device includes a first set of sinusoidal struts disposed between a downstream end of an upstream anchor and an upstream end of the intermediate portion, the sinusoidal struts being shaped to form...