ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,389, issued on May 20, was assigned to Laplace Interventional Inc. (Plymouth, Minn.).
"Prosthetic heart valves" was invented by Ramji Iyer (Plymouth, Minn.), Lucas Tradd Schneider (Champlin, Minn.), Gunnar Paul Askegaard (Brainerd, Minn.), Brett R. Olsen (Minneapolis) and Rachel Jean Anderson (St. Louis Park, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Prosthetic heart valves may be delivered to a targeted native heart valve site via one or more delivery catheters. In some embodiments, the prosthetic heart valves are implanted using catheter-based deployment systems that include multiple control wires. In particular implementations, the dep...