ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,148, issued on March 25, was assigned to Medtronic Ventor Technologies Ltd. (Netanya, Israel).
"Sinus-engaging valve fixation member" was invented by Yossi Tuval (Even Yehuda, Israel), Raphael Benary (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Ido Kilemnik (Herzliya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of delivering and deploying a valve prosthesis includes delivering the valve prosthesis disposed in a delivery catheter to a native valve, proximally retracting a delivery catheter tube of the delivery catheter such that three engagement arms of a support of the valve prosthesis are released from the delivery catheter tube and flare outwardly w...