US Patent Issued to Shifamed Holdings on Sept. 23 for "Prosthetic cardiac valve devices, systems, and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,743, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Shifamed Holdings LLC (Campbell, Calif.).

"Prosthetic cardiac valve devices, systems, and methods" was invented by Claudio Argento (Felton, Calif.), Andrew Backus (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Alice Yang (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for treating a diseased native valve in a patient, the system comprising a compressible and expandable frame structure and an anchor. The anchor comprises a wire having a free end and is configured to be fully advanced from an atrial side of a native valve in a patient into a ventricle of the heart and anchor the frame ...