US Patent Issued to Medtronic Vascular on Sept. 30 for "Aortic landing band support method and system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,014, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Medtronic Vascular Inc. (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

"Aortic landing band support method and system" was invented by Keith Perkins (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Mark Stiger (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Steven Claessens (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing support in an aortic region. The method includes wrapping a landing band around an outside of a portion of an aortic vessel in a vicinity of a sinotubular junction (STJ) to form a wrapped portion of the aortic vessel. The method further includes securing the landing band to form a secured landing band. The method also includ...