US Patent Issued to NEOVASC on July 14 for "Systems and methods for deploying and retrieving a prosthesis" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,279, issued on July 14, was assigned to NEOVASC INC. (Ontario, Canada).

"Systems and methods for deploying and retrieving a prosthesis" was invented by Karen Tsoek-Ji Wong (Richmond, Canada), Kellen Bodell (Plymouth, Minn.), Aaron J. Chalekian (Savage, Minn.), Eric Soun-Sang Fung (Vancouver, Canada) and Kathleen Hung (New Westminster, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthesis delivery catheter has an inner distal capsule shaft and a distal capsule configured to house the prosthesis. An anchor catheter with an anchor hub is slidably disposed over the inner distal capsule shaft. An elbow catheter is slidably disposed over the ...