US Patent Issued to Valcare Medical on June 23 for "Devices and methods for the treatment of heart valve insufficiencies" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,228, issued on June 23, was assigned to Valcare Medical Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Devices and methods for the treatment of heart valve insufficiencies" was invented by Nadav Yellin (Aven Yehuda, Israel), Samuel M. Shaolian (Newport Beach, Calif.), Matan Gedulter (Givat Ella, Israel), Boaz Schwarz (Tel Aviv, Israel), Daniel Rapoport (Kfar Menahem, Israel) and Avraham Eftel (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are various embodiments directed to a device for minimally invasive medical treatment. The device being a hollow tube with a first end, a second end, and one or more anchors configured to extend outwa...