US Patent Issued to Tel HaShomer Medical Research Infrastructure and Services, The Trendlines Group on Feb. 17 for "Delaying pre-term birth" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,217, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Tel HaShomer Medical Research Infrastructure and Services Ltd. (Ramat-Gan, Israel) and The Trendlines Group Ltd. (Misgav, Israel).

"Delaying pre-term birth" was invented by Abraham Tsur (Ramat-Gan, Israel), Sharon Farber (Nofit, Israel), Roy Mashiach (Ramat-Gan, Israel), Yosef Hazan (Haifa, Israel), David Shashar (Shoham, Israel) and Avshalom Shenhav (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for retarding birth including an upper ring for surrounding a cervix, an anchoring component for anchoring the device, and an elastic component for attaching the upper ring to the anchoring com...