US Patent Issued to Heart Repair Technologies on July 22 for "Percutaneous delivery systems for anchoring an implant in a cardiac valve annulus" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,604, issued on July 22, was assigned to Heart Repair Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Percutaneous delivery systems for anchoring an implant in a cardiac valve annulus" was invented by Valavanur A. Subramanian (New York), Michael L. Reo (Redwood City, Calif.), Gary Hulme (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Baldwin (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Kevin Bencini (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Alex Rowson (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Stephen Bower (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mitral valve prolapse and mitral regurgitation can be treating by implanting in the mitral annulus a transvalvular intraannular band. The band has a first end, a f...