ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,336, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Laplace Interventional Inc. (Plymouth, Minn.).
"Prosthetic heart valves" was invented by Rachel Jean Anderson (St. Louis Park, Minn.), Lucas Tradd Schneider (Champlin, Minn.), Gunnar Paul Askegaard (Maple Grove, Minn.), Daniel Oliver (Portland, Ore.) and Ramji Iyer (Plymouth, 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, t...