US Patent Issued to VENUS MEDTECH (HANGZHOU) on April 8 for "Method for reshaping severely stenosed aortic valve having leaflets with bicuspid malformation and severe calcification" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,600, issued on April 8, was assigned to VENUS MEDTECH (HANGZHOU) INC. (Hangzhou, China).

"Method for reshaping severely stenosed aortic valve having leaflets with bicuspid malformation and severe calcification" was invented by Mao Chen (Zhejiang, China), Yuan Feng (Zhejiang, China), Zhenjun Zi (Zhejiang, China), Zhengang Zhao (Zhejiang, China) and Hou-Sen Lim (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of reshaping a severely stenosed aortic valve having leaflets with bicuspid malformation and severe calcification. The method includes delivering a balloon with an expandable distal end to the aortic valve, expanding the b...