ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,386, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Pi-Cardia Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel).
"Transcatheter valve laceration device and method" was invented by Benzion Spector (Tel Mond, Israel), Raphael Benary (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Erez Golan (Rehovot, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transcatheter valve laceration device (10, 100) includes a leaflet support frame (12, 112) and a leaflet cutting assembly (14, 114), both of which are movably mounted on a guiding structure (16, 116) and movable between contracted and expanded orientations. In the expanded orientation, a blade protector (24, 124) of the leaflet support frame (12, 112) is position...