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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:
Jul. 18, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 17, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Shlomo Gabbay, Short Hills, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Shelhigh, Inc., Millburn, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
623-21 ; 623-211 ;
Abstract
An extra-anatomic heart valve apparatus, which may be mounted externally to the heart, includes a heart valve positioned within a generally tubular conduit. An elongated outflow conduit extends from the tubular conduit and terminates in an end spaced from the heart valve. A resilient support and/or corrugations may be added to the outflow conduit to help resist compression of the conduit as well as to facilitate bending thereof.