US Patent Issued on Jan. 13 for "Transcatheter valve implant assembly with ventricular assist device releasably connectable to docking station" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,237, issued on Jan. 13.

"Transcatheter valve implant assembly with ventricular assist device releasably connectable to docking station" was invented by Keshava Rajagopal (Bellaire, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transcatheter valve implant assembly has a ventricular assist device, a prosthetic valve, a stent frame structure, and a docking station, and is implanted at an aortic or a pulmonary valve. During implantation, the native valve leaflets of the respective valve at the implantation site are engaged with the prosthetic valve and/or the stent frame structure while the stent frame structure is connected to the docking stat...