US Patent Issued to MEDTRONIC on July 15 for "Balloon expandable frame for transcatheter implantation of a cardiac valve prosthesis" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,454, issued on July 15, was assigned to MEDTRONIC INC. (Minneapolis).

"Balloon expandable frame for transcatheter implantation of a cardiac valve prosthesis" was invented by Justin Peterson (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Stuart Kari (Windsor, Calif.), Michael Krivoruchko (Forestville, Calif.), Matthew Baldwin (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Finn Rinne (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transcatheter valve prosthesis includes a balloon expandable stent and a prosthetic valve. An inflow portion of the stent includes a plurality of crowns and a plurality of struts with each crown being formed between a pair of opposing struts. Endmost...