ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,399, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to MIRUS LLC (Marietta, Ga.).
"Expandable frame for medical device" was invented by Alex Panter (Marietta, Ga.), Jay Yadav (Atlanta) and Noah Roth (Marietta, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic heart valve for the treatment of structural heart disease wherein the prosthetic heart valve includes an expandable frame that is formed of a rhenium containing metal alloy. The novel geometry of the expandable frame in combination with the frame being partially or fully formed of the rhenium containing alloy enables the formation of a frame that a) has an open cell geometry in the frame of the ...