US Patent Issued to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division on Jan. 13 for "Leaflet/Cuff attachment compliance for improved durability" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,239, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Leaflet/Cuff attachment compliance for improved durability" was invented by Kristen T. Morin (St. Paul, Minn.), Jay Reimer (Shoreview, Minn.), Keith T. High (White Bear Lake, Minn.) and Kristopher Henry Vietmeier (Monticello, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic heart valve may include an expandable stent having a plurality of struts forming cells connected to one another in a plurality of annular rows around the stent, a cuff attached to an annulus section of the stent by cuff sutures that have a plurality of stitches e...