US Patent Issued to Sydney Heart Valve on Jan. 20 for "Device and method for augmenting mitral valve function" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,662, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Sydney Heart Valve Pty Ltd (Hunters Hill, Australia).

"Device and method for augmenting mitral valve function" was invented by Hugh Paterson (Sydney), Paul Bannon (Sydney), Michael Vallely (Melbourne, Australia) and Ashish Mitra (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are devices and methods for augmenting mitral valve function. A cardiac valve prosthesis device comprises a stent frame assembly having an atrial portion and a ventricular portion, a peripheral ring attached to the stent frame assembly, which divides the stent frame assembly into the atrial and ventricular portions, and a ...