US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on April 15 for "Simplified coaxial shaft design delivery system and implant for mitral valve annulus reduction" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,619, issued on April 15, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Simplified coaxial shaft design delivery system and implant for mitral valve annulus reduction" was invented by James M. Anderson (Corcoran, Minn.), Joshua M. Inouye (Maple Grove, Minn.), Graham Krumpelmann (Stillwater, Minn.) and John M. Edgell (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implant includes a pair of anchors and a pair of anchor housing assemblies, wherein an anchor housing assembly includes an anchoring component configured to translate the anchor proximally-distally through the anchor housing assembly and a cinch compo...