ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,536, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to LYRA MEDICAL LTD. (Kerem Maharal, Israel).

"Pelvic implants and methods of making and using thereof" was invented by Gil Levy (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Iram Levit (Kerem-Maharal, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pelvic implant having a frame with two arms and a sheet are disclosed. The sheet may be held under tension in the assembled implant. The implant may be planar (flat) or may be non-planar. The implant may be contoured laterally. A curved non-planar implant may be convex or concave in a rostro-caudal direction. The implants may (optionally) include two additional arms and a second sheet...