US Patent Issued to SMARTVALVES on Sept. 15 for "Aortic cardiac pacing and sensing" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,364, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SMARTVALVES LTD. (Savyon, Israel).

"Aortic cardiac pacing and sensing" was invented by Yossi Gross (Moshav Mazor, Israel), Meni Iamberger (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Navot Rabban (Ramat Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for delivering ventricular pacing pulses, the method including positioning a first electrode in contact with left ventricular endocardium of a left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) at a first-electrode site having a first-electrode angular location, with respect to an axis of the LVOT; and positioning a second electrode in contact with the left ventri...