US Patent Issued to SINO MEDICAL SCIENCES TECHNOLOGY on June 3 for "Transapical implantable mitral valve device" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,282, issued on June 3, was assigned to SINO MEDICAL SCIENCES TECHNOLOGY INC. (Tianjin, China).

"Transapical implantable mitral valve device" was invented by Zhonghua Li (Irvine, Calif.), Tianzhu Li (Tianjin, China), Jianxiang Ma (Tianjin, China), Jinhong Zhao (Tianjin, China) and Lei Meng (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a transapical implantable mitral valve device, which includes an outer valve stent comprising an outer valve stent body that is composed of a plurality of first structure units arranged in the circumferential direction and an anchoring unit that is disposed on the outer val...