ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,553, issued on April 21, was assigned to SMARTVALVES LTD (Savyon, Israel).
"In situ assembly of prosthetic pacing valves" was invented by Meni Iamberger (Kfar Saba, Israel), Navot Rabban (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Boaz Harari (Ganey Tikva, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical-component add-on is provided for use with a prosthetic cardiac valve including a tubular frame. The electrical-component add-on includes a support and one or more electrical components. The support is (a) configured to assume delivery and deployed configurations, (b) configured to be positioned above, at, or below an annulus of a native cardiac valv...