US Patent Issued to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division on Dec. 9 for "Occluder including external skirt" (California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,965, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Occluder including external skirt" was invented by Dan E. Gutfinger (Agoura Hills, Calif.), Michael P Meyer (Minnetrista, Minn.) and Pankaj Gupta (Maple Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to embodiments and methods of reducing or eliminating erosion resulting from the use of an occluder, as well as reducing or eliminating other interference with cardiac tissue by an occluder, including reducing pressure on cardiac tissue, minimizing micro-perforations, and/or minimizing residual leak by impro...