US Patent Issued to Vactronix Scientific on July 29 for "Methods of making biased cell cardiac valve devices" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,041, issued on July 29, was assigned to Vactronix Scientific LLC (San Antonio).

"Methods of making biased cell cardiac valve devices" was invented by Julio C. Palmaz (Napa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making a biased cardiac valve including a cell configured to flex out-of-plane upon application of a lateral or circumferential force applied to the biased cell, the biased cell having an elongate member projecting axially from an apex of the biased cell that flexes out-of-plane concomitantly with out-of-plane flexion of the biased cell. A monolithic hypotube is formed into a lattice structure having a plurality of...