Patents by Inventor Hong-Gook Lim

Hong-Gook Lim has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20120010697
    Abstract: A heart valve prosthesis and a method of fabricating the same. The heart valve prosthesis uses a leaflet of pig pericardium or a leaflet of cattle pericardium, which has a suitable thickness according to the size of the valve, and a stent. The heart valve prosthesis is fabricated by placing a valve body over a Dacron body, binding the valve body to the Dacron body using stitching fiber, rolling the Dacron body into a cylindrical form such that the valve body is located inside, binding opposite edges of the Dacron body to each other using stitching fiber, and inserting the resultant structure into a stent, which is knitted using a shape memory alloy wire. The heart valve prosthesis is friendly to and is not rejected by human tissue, is free from deformation, and can be implanted using a non-invasive manner without incising the chest wall of a patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Inventors: Kyong-Min SHIN, Kang Sun Hong, Eun Ae Jo, Yong-Jin Kim, Cheul Lee, Sam Sea Oh, Chang-Ha Lee, Hong-Gook Lim