US Patent Issued to CARDIOVALVE on Feb. 11 for "Systems and methods for implanting a prosthetic valve within a native heart valve" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,220,313, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to CARDIOVALVE LTD. (Or Yehuda, Israel).

"Systems and methods for implanting a prosthetic valve within a native heart valve" was invented by Ilia Hariton (Zichron Yaackov, Israel), Meni Iamberger (Kfar Saba, Israel), Aviram Baum (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Boaz Harari (Ganey Tikva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An expandable prosthetic valve is implantable within a native mitral valve by terminal ends of ventricular anchors of the prosthetic valve moving outwardly from a constrained delivery position of the ventricular anchors, while the ventricular anchors are positioned within the atrium. The...