ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,124, issued on June 23, was assigned to ToTal Medical Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Longitudinally compressible vascular occluder" was invented by Michael Gabriel Tal (Tel Aviv, Israel), Navot Rabban (Ramat-Gan, Israel) and Amit Greener (Tel-Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vascular occluder and methods for occluding a passage are provided. The vascular occluder comprises an elongated occluder body with an occluding section, and a tension member connected with one end thereof to occluder body. Occluding section forms a tubular bellows-like shaped structure comprising a plurality of bellows sections when in an elastically relax...