US Patent Issued to Johnson Consulting on June 24 for "Anchoring frame device for an artificial valve and related systems and method" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,904, issued on June 24, was assigned to Johnson Consulting LLC (Chanhassen, Minn.).

"Anchoring frame device for an artificial valve and related systems and method" was invented by Derek Johnson (Chanhassen, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various deployable valve frame device embodiments that can be implanted into a valvular annulus for receiving an artificial valve therein. The frame can have an anchoring bowl, an anchoring lip, and a neck coupling the anchoring bowl to the anchoring lip, the neck comprising a lumen defined therethrough, wherein the frame is expandable from an undeployed configuration to a deployed configuratio...