US Patent Issued to Valcare Medical on Aug. 26 for "Systems and methods for delivery of chordae replacement system" (Israeli, American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,853, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Valcare Medical Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Systems and methods for delivery of chordae replacement system" was invented by Andrea Colli (Padua, Italy), Nadav Yellin (Aven Yehuda, Israel), Samuel Shaolian (Newport Beach, Calif.) and Shuki Porath (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of repairing a native chordae of a patient using an artificial chordae. The artificial chordae is inserted into the patient in a non-deployed configuration using a delivery system and is delivered to a desired position within the patient. An operator causes the artificial chordae to transit...