US Patent Issued to Caisson Interventional on Dec. 9 for "Two stage anchor and mitral valve assembly" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,068, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Caisson Interventional LLC (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Two stage anchor and mitral valve assembly" was invented by Kavitha Ganesan (Maple Grove, Minn.), Ramji Iyer (Maple Grove, Minn.), Andrew T. Forsberg (Plymouth, Minn.), Alex A. Peterson (Maple Grove, Minn.), Cyril J. Schweich Jr. (Maple Grove, Minn.) and Todd J. Mortier (Mound, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for medical interventional procedures, including approaches to valve implantation. In one aspect, the methods and systems involve a modular approach to mitral valve therapy."

The patent was filed on Oct. 30, 2020, un...