ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,534, issued on March 4.
"Method of repairing a defective heart valve" was invented by Hans-Reinhard Zerkowski (Kreuzlingen, Switzerland), Olli Keranen (Bjarred, Sweden) and Jani Virtanen (Soderkulla, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of repairing a defective heart valve is disclosed comprising directing an implant delivery catheter to form a first curve of the implant delivery catheter around chordae of the heart valve on a ventricular side of the heart valve, inserting the implant delivery catheter through the heart valve to an atrial side thereof, forming a second curve of the delivery catheter along an annulus of the...