ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,837, issued on May 13, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).
"Mitral heart valve replacement" was invented by Theodore Paul Dale (Corcoran, Minn.), Katherine A. Ahmann (Arden Hills, Minn.), Brian Joseph Perszyk (Shoreview, Minn.), Mathias Charles Glimsdale (St. Michael, Minn.) and Kristopher Henry Vietmeier (Monticello, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic heart valve includes a collapsible and expandable stent extending along a longitudinal axis and having an inflow end and an outflow end, the stent including a plurality of cells annularly arranged around the stent in at least one ...