ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,931, issued on March 17, was assigned to CARDIOMECH AS (Trondheim, Norway).
"Device for heart repair" was invented by Nikolai Hiorth (Oslo, Norway), Hans Emil Hiorth (Trondheim, Norway) and John B. Blix (Maple Grove, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter device is described. The device is for implanting an artificial chordae line (14) in the heart. The catheter device comprises: a leaflet anchor (10) for placement in a leaflet (12) of a heart valve, wherein the leaflet anchor (10) is arranged to be coupled to the artificial chordae line (14); and a leaflet anchor deployment mechanism (6, 30, 38) for deploying the leaflet a...