US Patent Issued to MEDTRONIC CV LUXEMBOURG on Feb. 4 for "Anti-paravalvular leakage component for a transcatheter valve prosthesis" (Minnesota, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,879, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to MEDTRONIC CV LUXEMBOURG SARL (Luxembourg).

"Anti-paravalvular leakage component for a transcatheter valve prosthesis" was invented by Kshitija Garde (Irvine, Calif.), Joel Racchini (Minnesota, Minn.), Paul Rothstein (Elk River, Minn.) and Jeffrey Sandstrom (Scandia, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transcatheter valve prosthesis includes an expandable tubular stent, a prosthetic valve within the stent, and an anti-paravalvular leakage component coupled to and encircling the tubular stent. The anti-paravalvular leakage component includes a radially-compressible annular scaffold, which is a s...