ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,387, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to RAPID MEDICAL LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Intraluminal device with variable wire configuration" was invented by Aharon Friedman (Haifa, Israel) and Matan Gedulter (Givat Ela, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Intraluminal devices and methods of fabricating intraluminal devices may be provided. In one implementation, an intraluminal device may be formed of a plurality of wires and may include a distal coil, a proximal coil, and an expandable mesh segment positioned between the distal and proximal coils. The proximal coil may include more wires of the plurality of wires than the distal coil and ...