US Patent Issued to Anteris Technologies on Jan. 13 for "Replacement heart valve with reduced suturing" (Australian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,238, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Anteris Technologies Corp. (Eagan, Minn.).

"Replacement heart valve with reduced suturing" was invented by William Morris Leonard Neethling (Booragoon, Australia), Scott Bliss (Minneapolis), Anthony Michael Macintyre (Claremont, Australia) and Wayne Paterson (Mendota Heights, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heart valve replacement device comprises a stent having a first end, a second end, an outer surface, and an inner surface, the inner surface defining a lumen; and a valve disposed within the lumen of the stent, the valve formed from a single sheet of tissue, the valve having an outer ...