US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Sept. 16 for "Tricuspid valve repair devices and associated systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,855, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Tricuspid valve repair devices and associated systems and methods" was invented by Katherine Miyashiro (Menlo Park, Calif.), Hanson S. Gifford (Woodside, Calif.), James I. Fann (Portola Valley, Calif.), Ben F. Brian (Menlo Park, Calif.), Gaurav Krishnamurthy (Mountain View, Calif.), Jose Gonzalez (Fremont, Calif.), Paul Gunning (San Francisco), Matthew McLean (San Francisco), Neil Zimmerman (Menlo Park, Calif.), Robert O'Grady (San Francisco), Douglas S. Sutton (Pacifica, Calif.) and Steven K. Stringer (Vista, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tricuspid valv...