US Patent Issued to MEDTRONIC VASCULAR GALWAY UNLtd. on June 10 for "Stented prosthetic heart valve with variable stiffness and methods of use" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,736, issued on June 10, was assigned to MEDTRONIC VASCULAR GALWAY UNLtd. COMPANY (Galway, Ireland).

"Stented prosthetic heart valve with variable stiffness and methods of use" was invented by Rodney Bell (Galway, Ireland) and Declan Costello (Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic heart valve including a stent frame and a valve structure. The valve structure is disposed within a lumen of the stent frame. The stent frame is configured to self-expand from a compressed condition for transluminal delivery. The stent frame has a lattice structure forming a tubular shape defining a circumference and a plurality of clos...