ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,952, issued on April 22, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).
"Collapsible leaflets for prosthetic heart valves" was invented by Kristen T. Morin (St. Paul, Minn.), Jay Reimer (Shoreview, Minn.), Keith T. High (White Bear Lake, Minn.), Kristopher Henry Vietmeier (Monticello, Minn.), Tracee Eidenschink (Wayzata, Minn.) and Yousef F. Alkhatib (Edina, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic heart valve may include an expandable stent, a cuff attached to an annulus section of the stent, and a plurality of leaflets disposed within an interior region of the stent and attached to at least one...