ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,493, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CARDIOVALVE LTD. (Or Yehuda, Israel).
"Prosthetic heart valve and delivery systems and methods" 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 for implantation within a heart valve includes an expandable valve body having upstream and downstream ends and an intermediate portion. The valve body includes an outer frame including a plurality of outer frame struts intersecting at junctions of the outer frame struts, and an inner...