US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Nov. 25 for "Transcatheter prosthetic heart valve post-dilatation remodeling devices and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,469, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Transcatheter prosthetic heart valve post-dilatation remodeling devices and methods" was invented by Hubert Yeung (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Mike Krivoruchko (Forestville, Calif.) and Susheel Deshmukh (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for restoring (e.g., replacing) a defective heart valve of a patient. A delivery system is manipulated to percutaneously deliver and implant a stented prosthetic heart valve to a native heart valve. A post-dilatation balloon is percutaneously delivered to the implantation site, and a compliant segment ...