US Patent Issued to V-Wave on July 28 for "Interatrial shunt with expanded neck region" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,267, issued on July 28, was assigned to V-Wave Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).

"Interatrial shunt with expanded neck region" was invented by Nir Nae (Binyamina, Israel), Neal Eigler (Agoura Hills, Calif.), James S. Whiting (Los Angeles), Lior Rosen (Zikhron Ya'akov, Israel), Werner Hafelfinger (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Or Mayo (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Erez Rozenfeld (Shoham, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices are provided with a bridge made of a biocompatible material that surrounds a neck region of an encapsulated shunt. In one embodiment, the bridge is configured to maintain an outer diameter while the diameter of the neck region...