US Patent Issued to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY on Aug. 11 for "Intraoperative aortic valve visualization test devices and systems and methods for using them" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,812, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY (Stanford, Calif.).

"Intraoperative aortic valve visualization test devices and systems and methods for using them" was invented by Yuanjia Zhu (Stanford, Calif.), Annabel M. Imbrie-Moore (Stanford, Calif.), Michael John Paulsen (Los Altos, Calif.) and Y. Joseph Woo (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods are provided for pressurization of an aortic valve of a heart before and/or after a valve surgery procedure to mimic the physiologic environment that the aortic valve experiences while allowing surgeons...