ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,287, issued on June 3, was assigned to Magnolia Medical Corp. (Newport Beach, Calif.).
"Prosthetic heart valve, systems, and methods" was invented by Glen Rabito (Lake Forest, Calif.), Hieu Luong (Westminster, Calif.) and Robert C. Taft (Orange, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Prosthetic valve support structures of this specification include a body portion, an atrial flange portion, and a leaflet engaging portion. As the support structure (and the valve as a whole) is pushed out of or otherwise unrestrained from a delivery device, the free end(s) of the leaflet engaging portion will begin to bend radially outward or away from th...