US Patent Issued to Medtronic PS Medical on Oct. 7 for "Flow regulating shunt valve" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,039, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Medtronic PS Medical Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Flow regulating shunt valve" was invented by Yi Cai (Shanghai), Steve Han (Irvine, Calif.), Yong Feng (Shanghai), Zhihua Luo (Shanghai) and Jeff William Bertrand (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve assembly (10) configured to maintain fluid flow therethrough at a constant flow rate. The valve assembly (10) including a flexible flow control member (50) defining an inner fluid chamber (90) within the flexible flow control member (50) and an inlet opening (56) to the inner fluid chamber (90). An outer fluid chamber (92) is defined betwe...