ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,847, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Innovalve Bio Medical Ltd. (Ramat-Gan, Israel).
"Atrioventricular valve replacement" was invented by Nadav Agian (Kfar Yona, Israel), Shai Karni (Rehovot, Israel), Amit Tubishevitz (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Yuri Sudin (Modi'in-Makkabbimi-Re'ut, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are described including a valve frame configured to support a prosthetic valve within a native atrio-ventricular valve. The valve frame includes an atrial part comprising a disc-shaped portion configured to be deployed on an atrial side of the valve annulus, and a frustoconical portion, and a cylin...