US Patent Issued to MEDTRONIC VENTOR TECHNOLOGIES on Oct. 21 for "Prosthetic heart valve for transfemoral delivery" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,012, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to MEDTRONIC VENTOR TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Netanya, Israel).

"Prosthetic heart valve for transfemoral delivery" was invented by Yossi Tuval (Even Yehuda, Israel), Igor Kovalsky (Givataim, Israel) and Eli Ben Hamou (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic heart valve capable of being delivered via a transfemoral route a described."

The patent was filed on Nov. 12, 2020, under Application No. 17/096,000.

*For further information, including images, charts and tables, please visit: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-boo...