US Patent Issued to SONIVIE on June 16 for "Method for treating heart failure by improving ejection fraction of a patient" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,036, issued on June 16, was assigned to SONIVIE LTD. (Rosh Haayin, Israel).

"Method for treating heart failure by improving ejection fraction of a patient" was invented by Or Shabtay (Kibbutz Farod, Israel) and Dalit Shav (Rehovot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for improving an ejection fraction of a patient in need thereof, including positioning a pulmonary artery manipulation device in a target blood vessel, within the pulmonary vasculature of the patient; and impairing the activity of at least one sympathetic nerve, nerve fiber or neuron, using the pulmonary artery manipulation device, to denervate the target bloo...