ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,508, issued on May 19, was assigned to MAGENTA MEDICAL LTD (Kadima, Israel).
"Ventricular assist device" was invented by Yosi Tuval (Even Yehuda, Israel), Yinnon Elisha (Kffar Hess, Israel), David Israeli (Tel Aviv, Israel), Gad Lubinsky (Ein Vered, Israel), Victor Troshin (Hodhasharon, Israel), Shaul Mustacchi (Raanana, Israel), Yuval Zipory (Modiin, Israel), Avi Rozenfeld (Haifa, Israel), Aurelie Benaddi (Netanya, Israel), Gilad Moiseyev (Givataim, Israel) and Yuri Sudin (Modi'in-Makkabbim-Re'ut, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are described including an impeller (50) that includes a proximal bushing (64)...