ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,401, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to APPARENT LLC and SINGAPORE HEALTH SERVICES PTE LTD (Singapore).
"Valve implant, delivery system and method" was invented by James R. Watson (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Khung Keong Yeo (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve implant includes a valve leaflet prosthesis having a wire frame, a leaflet blade panel attached to the wire frame, and one or more tether struts extending from the wire frame, and a stent having a first end portion and a second end portion along a longitudinal stent axis, and a flexible extended stent strut extending longitudinally from the first end portion, wherein ...