MUMBAI, India, Oct. 11 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517090257 A) filed by Foldax, Inc., Salt Lake City, on Sept. 22, for 'improvements for balloon expandable and self expandable prosthetic heart valves and valve delivery systems.'
Inventor(s) include Nguyen, Megan; Wittel, James G; Johnson, Garrett; De Silva, Praveen; and Lhotak, Marek.
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: "The invention includes improvements to the design and structure of prosthetic cardiac valves having a polymeric component and particularly the leaflet structure formed by polymers integrated with an expandable and collapsible structural support. Improved manufacturing techniques are also provided to enable improved designs and performance of a prosthetic valve. Similarly, improvements to delivery systems for the particular valve designs described herein are also provided. The improvements include both balloon expanded and self-expanded prosthetic valve structures and improvements to each of the prosthetic valve, the components of the manufacturing process and the delivery system."
The patent application was internationally filed on Feb. 26, 2024, under International application No.PCT/US2024/017352.
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