US Patent Issued to Valcare Medical on April 22 for "Mitral or tricuspid repair systems with multi-directional anchors" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,955, issued on April 22, was assigned to Valcare Medical Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Mitral or tricuspid repair systems with multi-directional anchors" was invented by Nadav Yellin (Ramat Gan, Israel), Guy Rogel (Haifa, Israel), Yoav Rozen (Benyamina, Israel), Raphael Benary (Tel Aviv, Israel), Shuki Porath (Haifa, Israel) and Samuel M. Shaolian (Newport Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Prosthetic ring valve assemblies are disclosed. A prosthetic valve ring assembly includes an outer tube and a plurality of anchors. The outer tube includes a plurality of windows. The plurality of anchors are positioned inside the outer tube ...