ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,206, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to THUBRIKAR AORTIC VALVE INC..
"Frame for a prosthetic valve device and method of forming the same" was invented by Mano J. Thubrikar (North Wales, Pa.) and Yogesh Darekar (Santa Rosa, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic valve device and a method of forming a frame thereof. The method may include cutting a pattern into a tube having a first inner diameter and an axis, the pattern having a plurality of post pattern sections arranged on the tube in a circumferentially spaced-apart manner and a plurality of lattice pattern sections extending between the post pattern sections. The method...