ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,015, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Trisol Medical Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).
"Prosthetic valve and deployment system" was invented by Mordehay Vaturi (Ganei-Tikva, Israel) and Tal Gollan (Ramat-Gan, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic heart valve, for example a tricuspid valve, may include a flexible membrane and a frame. The frame may be attached to the periphery of the tricuspid orifice. The diaphragm may be attached to the frame around a part of the perimeter of the orifice. Optionally the frame may be flexible. For example the frame may elastically flex between a substantially circular shape and/of an elliptica...