ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,333, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Laplace Interventional Inc. (Plymouth, Minn.).
"Prosthetic heart valves" was invented by Lucas Tradd Schneider (Champlin, Minn.), Gunnar Paul Askegaard (Brainerd, Minn.) 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 valve includes structural features that securely anchor the prosthetic heart valve to the anatomy at the site of the native heart valve. Such structural features can provide robust migration resistance. In addit...