ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,649, issued on June 2, was assigned to T-HEART SAS (Paris).
"Assembly for replacing the tricuspid atrioventricular valve" was invented by Alain Dibie (Paris).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for the tricuspid orifice of a human heart has an external frame connected to an internal stent carrying a tricuspid valve bioprosthesis and a sealing skirt. The external frame is configured to hold its position in the native tricuspid annulus. The internal stent is connected to the external frame by one or more fixing strands. The sealing skirt covers the interstitial space existing between the external frame and the internal stent. Deve...