ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,654, issued on June 2, was assigned to Valcare Medical Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Transcatheter annuloplasty system and methods" was invented by Nadav Yellin (Aven Yehuda, Israel), Yoav Rozen (Binyamina, Israel) and Yuri Falkovich (Pardes Hana, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for an annuloplasty device and delivery system for treating valvular regurgitation. The annuloplasty device (e.g., a transcatheter annuloplasty ring) may include a tube having anterior and posterior anchors that may transition from a constrained state within the tube to a deployed state in which anchors extend through windows...