US Patent Issued to CV Cardiovascular on May 12 for "Aortic stent" (Austrian, Brazilian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,001, issued on May 12, was assigned to CV Cardiovascular GmbH (Vienna).

"Aortic stent" was invented by Guilherme Agreli (Sao Jose de Rio Preto, Brazil), Katharina Kiss (Vienna) and Siegfried Einhellig (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a stent for placement at an aortic annulus that is expandable from an undeployed state to a deployed state comprising a stent frame having rows of cells with a proximal section and a distal section at a longitudinal axis of the stent, the stent frame being formed by a plurality of arms, the arms being connected to one another at connection points, and wherein the plurality o...