US Patent Issued to Percutaneous Cardiovascular Solutions on Feb. 17 for "Heart valve prosthesis and method" (Australian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,207, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Percutaneous Cardiovascular Solutions Pty Ltd (Macquarie Park, Australia).

"Heart valve prosthesis and method" was invented by Suku Thambar (New South Wales, Australia), Martin Christopher Cook (Lane Cove, Australia), Stefan Schreck (Duvall, Wash.) and Stayajit Rohan Jayasinghe (Southport, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heart valve prosthesis for replacing a native atrioventricular valve of the heart. The prosthesis includes a housing component that is configured to be radially expandable and compressible between a radially compressed state and a radially expanded state to engage st...