US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, Ri.MED Foundation on March 3 for "Retrievable self-expanding non-thrombogenic low-profile percutaneous atrioventricular valve prosthesis" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,492, issued on March 3, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh) and Ri.MED Foundation (Palermo, Italy).

"Retrievable self-expanding non-thrombogenic low-profile percutaneous atrioventricular valve prosthesis" was invented by Vinay Badhwar (Washington, Pa.), Young Jae Chun (Wexford, Pa.), Antonio D'Amore (Pittsburgh), David S. Schwartzman (Pittsburgh) and William R. Wagner (Gibsonia, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An atrioventricular prosthesis device is provided. The device includes a frame at least partially defining and enclosing a central cavity, the frame having a d...