US Patent Issued to DEVIE MEDICAL on March 25 for "System for treating, preventing and/or replacing a heart valve, in particular an inflamed, infected, thrombosed or degenerated heart valve" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,147, issued on March 25, was assigned to DEVIE MEDICAL GMBH (Jena, Germany).

"System for treating, preventing and/or replacing a heart valve, in particular an inflamed, infected, thrombosed or degenerated heart valve" was invented by Hans-Reiner Figulla (Jena, Germany), Raphael Andreas Seidel (Weimar, Germany) and Sharath Chandra Chavalla (Jena, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anchoring for heart valve prostheses includes a stent framework, for attaching heart valve leaflets to an inner side, and compartmentalization clips, connected with the stent framework at a first end region and having a free second end region. The an...