ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,958, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to CARDIOVALVE LTD. (Or Yehuda, Israel).
"Prosthetic heart valve" was invented by Ilia Hariton (Zichron Yaackov, Israel), Meni Iamberger (Kfar Saba, Israel), Boaz Harari (Ganey Tikva, Israel) and Aviram Baum (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic valve is provided that includes a tubular valve body and a plurality of prosthetic leaflets disposed within a lumen of the valve body. The valve body includes struts, has an upstream end and a downstream end, and defines a lumen. The valve body is shaped so as to define a circumferential row of four-sided closed cells. Each of the f...