US Patent Issued to Evalve on Sept. 8 for "Augmented imaging for valve repair" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,850, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Evalve Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Augmented imaging for valve repair" was invented by Michael F. Wei (Redwood City, Calif.) and Chad J. Abunassar (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for augmenting image data during heart valve repair procedures, such as transcatheter mitral valve repair (TMVr) or transcatheter tricuspid valve repair (TTVr). Image data may be obtained from an imaging device, and may be output to a display with one or more reference markers overlaid on the image data to simplify the visual data. Image data may be augmented or replaced with the refe...