US Patent Issued to Cephea Valve Technologies on April 22 for "Controlled expression of expandable heart valve" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,949, issued on April 22, was assigned to Cephea Valve Technologies Inc. (Abbott Park, Ill.).

"Controlled expression of expandable heart valve" was invented by Zachary R. Vidlund (Robbinsdale, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic heart valve includes a collapsible and expandable outer frame, a collapsible and expandable inner frame, and a prosthetic valve assembly. The outer frame may be configured to engage tissue of a native heart valve, and may have (i) an atrial portion adapted to be positioned on an atrial side of the native heart valve; (ii) a ventricle portion adapted to be positioned on a ventricle side of the nati...