ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,841, issued on May 13, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).
"Prosthetic heart valve having identifiers for aiding in radiographic positioning" was invented by Yossi Tuval (Netanya, Israel) and Raphael Benary (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for rotationally aligning a valve prosthesis using imaging identifiers includes delivering the valve prosthesis in a collapsed configuration in a catheter to a vicinity of a functioning native heart valve of a heart of the subject using a retrograde approach, generating an image of the functioning native heart valve and the valve prosthesis, rotationally aligning ...