ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,210, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Medtronic Vascular Inc. (Santa Rosa, Calif.).
"Transcatheter aortic valve seating sensor" was invented by Raymond Ryan (Limerick, Ireland), Nicholas Fox (Dranmore, Ireland), John Gallagher (Galway, Ireland) and Timothy Desmond Farrell (Tralee, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery system for delivering a prosthesis includes a spindle for securing a stent to a shaft. The spindle includes at least one pocket for receiving a paddle of the stent. The delivery system also includes at least one sensor positioned within the at least one pocket and configured to detect a presence of the paddl...