ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,866, issued on April 15, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).
"Organosynthetic dynamic heart model" was invented by Clara Park (Cambridge, Mass.), Xuanhe Zhao (Cambridge, Mass.), Hyunwoo Yuk (Cambridge, Mass.), Christopher Tam Nguyen (Cambridge, Mass.) and Ellen T. Roche (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biorobotic hybrid heart that preserves organic intracardiac structures and mimics cardiac motion by image-guided replication of the cardiac myofiber architecture of the left ventricle with an active synthetic myocardium that drives the motion...