ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,601, issued on April 8, was assigned to Vitae LLC (Irvine, Calif.).
"Balloon-expandable heart valve system and method of implantation" was invented by Bin Tian (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system has a heart valve assembly that includes a stent-frame having an anchoring section and an outflow section, with the anchoring section having a distal annulus section and a support section that is positioned between the distal annulus section and the outflow section. The distal annulus section has a concave inflection. A leaflet assembly is stitched to the anchoring section. The system also includes a balloon on which the ...