ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,575, issued on May 27, was assigned to CARDIOVALVE LTD. (Or Yehuda, Israel).
"Helical anchor implantation" was invented by Gil Hacohen (Ramat Gan, Israel), Yossi Gross (Moshav Mazor, Israel) and Tal Reich (Moshav Moledet, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, for use at a mitral valve of a heart of a subject, is provided which includes advancing a transluminal sheath into a femoral vein of the subject, through an inferior vena cava of the subject, into a right atrium of the subject, and transseptally into a left atrium of the subject. A surrounding-sheath is advanced out of a distal end of the transluminal sheath, into the ...