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A patent application titled "Surgical System For A Heart Valve" has been published online by the US Patent and Trademark Office. The patent application is by the inventors Shawn Sabu Cherian, Michael A. Dotsey, Lucas Haarstad, Philip J. Haarstad, Lucas Harder, Alison Mikayla Kane, Jason Keiser, Elizabeth Radzwill, Chad J. Smith, and Greg A. Walters, and the assignee is Excision Medical Inc. The patent application describes a surgical system for maintaining proper blood flow during the excision of portions of a heart valve, whether implanted or native. The system includes an expandable valve assembly that can transition between collapsed and expanded configurations, and it also includes radiopaque elements to aid in the measurement of heart valve dimensions. [Extracted from the article] |