US Patent Issued to TEL HASHOMER MEDICAL RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICES on May 27 for "Chorda replacement apparatus and method" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,852, issued on May 27, was assigned to TEL HASHOMER MEDICAL RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICES LTD. (Ramat Gan, Israel).

"Chorda replacement apparatus and method" was invented by Alain Elie Serraf (Jerusalem), Mila Shai Raziel Tejman-Yarden (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Roey Shafrir (Maccabim Reut, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus for coupling a prosthetic chorda to an atrioventricular valve leaflet, the apparatus comprising: a neochorda delivery system comprising a steerable and pushable catheter housing a neochorda attached to a neochorda puncture needle, the catheter operable to push the puncture needle to puncture and t...