US Patent Issued to NEOVASC on Sept. 29 for "Controllably deployable prosthetic valve" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,120, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to NEOVASC INC. (Ontario, Canada).

"Controllably deployable prosthetic valve" was invented by Eric Soun-Sang Fung (Vancouver, Canada), Kathleen Hung (New Westminster, Canada), Karen Tsoek-Ji Wong (Richmond, Canada), Aaron J. Chalekian (Savage, Minn.), Connor Lucas Haberl (Vancouver, Canada), Anson Wai Chung Cheung (Vancouver, Canada), Kellen Bodell (Plymouth, Minn.) and Christopher Brodeur (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic valve may be used to repair a diseased or otherwise damaged heart valve such as the mitral valve. The prosthetic valve may include atraumatic anchor...