ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,850, issued on June 9, was assigned to Valcare Medical Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Systems and methods for target/article bridging engagement and anchoring" was invented by Aviad Galler (Tel Aviv, Israel), Nadav Yellin (Even Yehuda, Israel), Yoav Rozen (Binyamina, Israel) and Shuki Porath (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for bridging a gap between an article or a portion thereof and a target, and anchoring the article or its portion to the target, the system comprising a) an elongated delivery catheter having a distal end; b) and a bridging and anchoring construction, operable to selectably translate in a distal an...