US Patent Issued to MEDTRONIC VASCULAR on March 11 for "Assemblies for sterilizing a wet stored prosthetic heart valve" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,928, issued on March 11, was assigned to MEDTRONIC VASCULAR INC. (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

"Assemblies for sterilizing a wet stored prosthetic heart valve" was invented by David Clarke (Loughrea, Ireland), Karina Doyle (Galway, Ireland), Paul Devereux (Tuam, Ireland), Gerry Kearns (Galway, Ireland), Padraigh Jennings (Summerhill, Ireland), Constantino Fiuza (Galway, Ireland) and Stephen Montgomery (Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to "wet" transcatheter prosthetic heart valve or other implant packaging and assemblies in which a prosthetic heart valve or other implant is loaded into a first ...