US Patent Issued to TRICARES on March 24 for "Heart valve replacement prosthesis with variable sealing function" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,518, issued on March 24, was assigned to TRICARES SAS (Paris).

"Heart valve replacement prosthesis with variable sealing function" was invented by Helmut Straubinger (Aschheim, Germany) and Coralie Marchand (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a heart valve prosthesis with a variable sealing function, a method for replacing a native heart valve with a heart valve replacement prosthesis with a variable sealing function and the use of a heart valve replacement prosthesis with a variable sealing function for treating a heart valve disorder."

The patent was filed on May 25, 2020, under Application No. 17/607...