US Patent Issued on Dec. 2 for "Stent of aortic valve" (Polish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,005, issued on Dec. 2.

"Stent of aortic valve" was invented by Piotr Chodor (Zernica, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stent of the aortic valve which is self-expandable and repositionable, preferably made from nitinol, consisting of two parts: the upper part and the lower part. The lower part is a mesh (1) laid out so that it creates a kind of cylinder wall on the entire height of the element. Also other shape of the mesh is acceptable, for example partially conical, or partially resembling flattened side wall of the cylinder. The upper part of the stent consists of derived from the mesh (1) upwards and arranged at equal inter...