US Patent Issued to Heart Repair Technologies on Feb. 24 for "Transvalvular intraannular implant for valve repair" (New York, California, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,220, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Heart Repair Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Transvalvular intraannular implant for valve repair" was invented by Valavanur A. Subramanian (New York), Gene Reis (San Jose, Calif.), Maurice Buchbinder (La Jolla, Calif.) and Tim MacNeil (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mitral valve prolapse and mitral regurgitation can be treating by implanting in the mitral annulus a transvalvular implant. The transvalvular implant has a first end, a first anchoring portion located proximate the first end, a second end, a second anchoring portion located proximate the second end, and a cen...