ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,230, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to MICOR Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).
"Mitral valve prosthesis implantation" was invented by Ji Zhang (Burnaby, Canada), Brandon G. Walsh (Kaysville, Utah), Cheng Y. Yang (Foster City, Calif.) and Jinhua Zhu (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heart valve prosthesis and methods of its implantation are described herein. The prosthesis can be implanted in a heart of a patient by positioning an upper support of an anchoring element into a left atrium of the patient. The upper support can expand adjacent to a native valve structure of the patient. Further, the upper support can be ...