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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 1984
Filed:
Dec. 08, 1980
Applicant:
Inventors:
Louis C Meyer, Denver, CO (US);
Samuel H Goodenough, Dana Point, CA (US);
Assignee:
Mitral Medical International, Inc., Wheat Ridge, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3-15 ;
Abstract
A prosthetic heart valve has at least one occluder leaflet in which lateral extensions on each leaflet are insertable into generally trapezoidal or triangular depressions formed in diametrically opposed extension walls of the valve body and which depressions both guide and limit the opening and closing movement of each leaflet through predetermined angles of movement.