US Patent Issued to Evalve on Sept. 9 for "Catheter assembly with coaptation aid and methods for valve repair" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,036, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Evalve Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Catheter assembly with coaptation aid and methods for valve repair" was invented by Chad Abunassar (Alameda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Catheter assembly with a coaptation aid for repair of leaflets of a heart valve includes an elongate catheter shaft adapted to be positioned transvascularly proximate a heart valve and a lever coupled to the catheter shaft. The lever has a hinge to transition the lever between an elongate delivery configuration generally aligned longitudinally with the catheter shaft and a deployed configuration extending transver...