US Patent Issued to Medtronic Vascular on Jan. 13 for "Transcatheter valve prosthesis having an external skirt for sealing and preventing paravalvular leakage" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,241, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Medtronic Vascular Inc. (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

"Transcatheter valve prosthesis having an external skirt for sealing and preventing paravalvular leakage" was invented by Joshua Dwork (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Scott Mosher (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transcatheter valve prosthesis including a tubular stent includes an interior skirt or skirt portion is coupled to and covers an inner circumferential surface of the stent, and an exterior skirt or skirt portion is coupled to and covers an outer circumferential surface of the stent. A prosthetic valve component is disposed within an...