US Patent Issued to Medtronic on May 27 for "Tension member routing designs to achieve transcatheter stented prosthesis compression" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,870, issued on May 27, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Tension member routing designs to achieve transcatheter stented prosthesis compression" was invented by Michael A. Gloss (Minneapolis), Patrick Griffin (Galway, Ireland), Jeffrey D. Sandstrom (Scandia, Minn.), David James O'Toole (Galway, Ireland), Rishi Manda (Stillwater, Minn.) and Niall F. Duffy (Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to delivery devices for transcatheter stented prosthesis loading, delivery and implantation. The delivery devices provide a loaded delivery state in which the stented prosthesis is loaded and ...