US Patent Issued to ProArc Medical on July 7 for "Devices for urethral treatment" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,192, issued on July 7, was assigned to ProArc Medical Ltd. (Misgav Business Park, Israel).

"Devices for urethral treatment" was invented by Raz Bar-On (Hadera, Israel), Roni Shabat (Kfar Yehezkel, Israel), Shai Golan (Kibbutz Megiddo, Israel), Yoav Lengel (Ramat-HaSharon, Israel) and Yair Feld (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dilation device for an intra-body lumen, for example, a urethra partially occluded by an enlarged prostate in the form of a resilient curved body configured to be implanted in a cut around the lumen, and a method for dilating such a lumen by implanting a dilation device in a cut around the outside ...