US Patent Issued to Shifamed Holdings on June 17 for "Flared prosthetic cardiac valve delivery devices and systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,635, issued on June 17, was assigned to Shifamed Holdings LLC (Campbell, Calif.).

"Flared prosthetic cardiac valve delivery devices and systems" was invented by Ali Salahieh (Saratoga, Calif.), Connor G. Mulcahy (San Francisco), Alice Yang (Campbell, Calif.), Savina Brachthauser Balcells (Los Gatos, Calif.), Mitchell Young (San Francisco), Jonathan H. Oakden (San Jose, Calif.), Jasper Adamek-Bowers (San Francisco), Cornelius Crowley (San Francisco), Terrence Vick (Los Gatos, Calif.), Balvir Johal (San Jose, Calif.) and Thu Hoang Pham (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for treating a diseased native valve in a p...