MUMBAI, India, Oct. 11 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517059366 A) filed by Edwards Lifesciences Innovation (ISRAEL) Ltd., Caesarea, Israel, on June 20, for 'annuloplasty implants and systems for use therewith.'
Inventor(s) include Halabi, Ido; Katbamna, Rohan Yogee; Romito, Eva Adriana De La Cruz; Shaolian, Eyal; Ghazvini, Alidod F.; Murphy, Brian Patrick; Bloodworth, Charles Henry IV; Dass, Ajay Kumar; Sussman, Matthew Aaron; Kasher, Yuval; Jain, Sambhav; Syed, Kaamran Ahsan; Francis, Meena; Biran, Itschak; Kazalbash, Murrad Mirza; Guerrero, Mauricio; Metchik, Asher L.; Tran, Tiana; Dalton, Timothy Allen; Fang, Zhicheng; Roche, Julia Akiko; Aviv, Ehud; Ni, Willa; Nawalakhe, Rupesh Gajanan; Koslosky, Jeffrey Michael; Brauon, Haim; Morrison, Jacob Timothy; Baldo, Danny Barrientos Jr.; Plut, Roman; Galon, Aviv; and Herman, Yaron.
The application for the patent was published on Oct. 10, under issue no. 41/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A catheter device (300d) includes a flexible tube (310d) and an extracorporeal unit (350d). The tube has a distal opening that is configured to be transluminally advanced into a subject, and a proximal end. The extracorporeal unit is coupled to the proximal end, and includes (i) a body (352), and (ii) a series of cartridges (360d), distributed along a proximal- distal axis of the body, with a distalmost cartridge being closest to the proximal end of the tube. A series of anchors (120d) includes a leading anchor (120d') and other anchors (120d''), each anchor being (i) housed by a corresponding cartridge, with the leading anchor housed by the distalmost cartridge, and (ii) coupled to a tether (112) such that the tether extends along the body, parallel with the proximal-distal axis. Other embodiments are also described."
The patent application was internationally filed on Dec. 06, 2023, under International application No.PCT/IB2023/062298.
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