US Patent Issued to Cephea Valve Technologies on Oct. 21 for "Collapsible gasket seal for heart valve" (California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,010, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Cephea Valve Technologies Inc. (Abbott Park, Ill.).

"Collapsible gasket seal for heart valve" was invented by Zachary R. Vidlund (Robbinsdale, Minn.), Spencer Noe (San Miguel, Calif.) and Randolf Von Oepen (Aptos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic mitral valve includes a stent frame and an anchor assembly coupled to and peripherally surrounding the stent frame. The anchor assembly includes atrial anchors on the inflow end, ventricular anchors on the outflow end, and a central waist portion disposed therebetween. The anchor assembly generally defines an hourglass shape wherein t...