US Patent Issued to White Swell Medical on June 30 for "Devices and methods for treating edema" (Israeli, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,704, issued on June 30, was assigned to White Swell Medical Ltd (Kibbutz Shefayim, Israel).

"Devices and methods for treating edema" was invented by Yaacov Nitzan (Hertzelia, Israel), Ronan Keating (Galway, Ireland), Shahaf Marmur (Tel Aviv, Israel), Or Inbar (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Eamon Brady (Galway, Ireland), Gerry McCaffrey (Galway, Ireland), Reed Williston (Galway, Ireland) and Sagi Raz (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to devices and methods for the treatment of edema that uses an impeller with a balloon that may be mounted on the impeller housing. The invention provides devices and methods fo...