US Patent Issued to White Swell Medical on July 7 for "Non-thrombogenic devices for treating edema" (Irish, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,180, issued on July 7, was assigned to White Swell Medical Ltd (Kibbutz Shefayim, Israel).

"Non-thrombogenic devices for treating edema" was invented by Ronan Keating (Galway, Ireland), Eamon Brady (Galway, Ireland), Gerry McCaffrey (Galway, Ireland), Sagi Raz (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Or Inbar (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides intravascular devices for treating certain medical conditions such as edema without causing thrombosis. The intravascular devices of the disclosure include non-thrombogenic surfaces that improve blood compatibility by reducing device-related thrombus formation and inflammatory...