US Patent Issued to Valcare Medical on Sept. 9 for "Annuloplasty ring with posterior leaflet for minimally invasive treatment" (Israeli, American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,034, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Valcare Medical Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Annuloplasty ring with posterior leaflet for minimally invasive treatment" was invented by Andrea Colli (Padua, Italy), Nadav Yellin (Aven Yehuda, Israel), Samuel Shaolian (Newport Beach, Calif.), Shuki Porath (Haifa, Israel) and Guy Shimel (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An annuloplasty ring is disclosed. The annuloplasty ring includes an outer tube, a plurality of anchors, and at least one synthetic leaflet. The synthetic leaflets are in mechanical communication with the annuloplasty ring at a plurality of points. The outer tube incl...