US Patent Issued to VENUS MEDTECH (HANGZHOU) on April 14 for "Heart valve comprising a crown piece interconnected to leaflets, a top cuff and a bottom cuff; and a medical implant" (Chinese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,479, issued on April 14, was assigned to VENUS MEDTECH (HANGZHOU) INC. (Hangzhou, China).

"Heart valve comprising a crown piece interconnected to leaflets, a top cuff and a bottom cuff; and a medical implant" was invented by Hou-Sen Lim (Hangzhou, China) and Wolfgang Gotz (Regensberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Heart valve comprising a crown piece interconnected to leaflets, a top cuff and a bottom cuff; and a medical implant. The present invention relates to a heart valve (100), comprising at least two leaflets (101, 101', 101"); at least one crown piece (111) interconnected to the leaflets (101, 101', 101") and intende...