Nageswara Rao Koneti, Senior Consultant and Head of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at Rainbow Children’s Heart Institute, Hyderabad, has received the patent for KONAR-MF (Multifunctional) Occluder.
The US patent follows patents previously granted in India, Europe, Euro-African countries, and South Korea between 2021 and 2023, the Rainbow hospitals said in a release on Thursday.
The KONAR-MF occluder offers a single, adaptable solution to close a variety of defects, including perimembranous and muscular ventricular septal defects (VSDs), residual post-surgical defects, coronary arteriovenous fistulas, selected aortopulmonary windows, paravalvular leaks and systemic-to-pulmonary artery collaterals, it added. PTI SJR ROH