US Patent Issued to SINGAPORE HEALTH SERVICES, APPARENT on Feb. 17 for "Prosthetic implant, delivery system and delivery apparatus" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,337, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SINGAPORE HEALTH SERVICES PTE LTD (Singapore) and APPARENT LLC (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

"Prosthetic implant, delivery system and delivery apparatus" was invented by James R. Watson (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Carl H. Poppe (Sebastopol, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic implant including an anchor member; at least one resilient tethering strut extending from the anchor member; a coaptation structure coupled to an end of the at least one resilient tethering strut; and a tensioning unit extending between the anchor member and the coaptation structure. The tensioning unit including a fle...