ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,939, issued on March 11, was assigned to Libra Science Ltd. (Road Town, British Virgin Islands).
"Methods and devices for deployment of a transcatheter heart valve" was invented by Shlomo Ben-Haim (Chatelaine, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method of treating a patient, comprising: delivering a self-expandable transcatheter heart valve (THV) over a guidewire in a contracted state and within a sheath to a first anatomical location within a heart of the patient, moving the THV relative to the sheath for partially self-expanding a portion of the THV within the first anatomical location, wherein a portion...