US Patent Issued to Heart Repair Technologies on March 31 for "Transvalvular intraanular band chordae cutting for ischemic and dilated cardiomyopathy" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,995, issued on March 31, was assigned to Heart Repair Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Transvalvular intraanular band chordae cutting for ischemic and dilated cardiomyopathy" was invented by Valavanur A. Subramanian (New York), Thomas Afzal (Menlo Park, Calif.), Gary Hulme (San Jose, Calif.), Jeffrey Christian (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Michael L. Reo (Redwood City, Calif.).

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 intraannular band. The band is positioned so that it extends transversely across a coaptive edge formed by the cl...