US Patent Issued to Capstan Medical on Feb. 3 for "Systems, devices and methods for folded unibody heart valve stents" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,209, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Capstan Medical Inc. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

"Systems, devices and methods for folded unibody heart valve stents" was invented by Spencer C. Noe (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Daniel T. Wallace (Woodside, Calif.), Evelyn N. Haynes (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Jeremy J. Boyette (San Miguel, Calif.) and Peter W. Gregg (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A replacement heart valve comprises a unibody, folded, double-wall stent, with a stent cover and a leaflet valve attached to the inner lumen of the stent. The heart valve is delivered using a multi-pulley, suture-based stent restraint assembly provided ...