US Patent Issued to The Children's Medical Center on June 16 for "Geometrically-accommodating heart valve replacement device" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,669, issued on June 16, was assigned to The Children's Medical Center Corp. (Boston).

"Geometrically-accommodating heart valve replacement device" was invented by Sophie-Charlotte Hofferberth (Boston), Pedro J. del Nido (Lexington, Mass.) and Mossab Y. Saeed (Revere, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A replacement heart valve device is disclosed. In some embodiments, the device includes a frame coupled to one or more leaflets that are moveable between open and closed configurations. In some embodiments, the frame comprises at least two frame sections that join at a pair of commissural posts. In some embodiments, the device may be ...