US Patent Issued to TECHNION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION on Feb. 3 for "Methods and devices for blood displacement-based localized treatment" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,123, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to TECHNION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION Ltd. (Haifa, Israel).

"Methods and devices for blood displacement-based localized treatment" was invented by Mark Epshtein (Yokneam Illit, Israel) and Netanel Korin (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for providing localized treatment at a target site in a blood vessel of a subject. The method includes (i) delivering to a vicinity of a target site in a blood vessel a water-immiscible fluid such as to displace blood from the vicinity of the target site, and (ii) administering an active agent to the target site, where...