US Patent Issued to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division on March 4 for "Transcatheter delivery system with wheel actuation" (Minnesota, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,531, issued on March 4, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Transcatheter delivery system with wheel actuation" was invented by Michael Shane Morrissey (St. Paul, Minn.), Bruce Edward Frohman (St. Louis Park, Minn.), Michael William Metz (Minneapolis), Janis Paulis Skujins (Minneapolis), David John Copeland (Minnetonka, Minn.) and Spencer Patrick Brown (Providence, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery device for a collapsible prosthetic heart valve, the delivery device including an inner shaft, a distal sheath disposed about a portion of the inner shaft and forming a compartment wit...