US Patent Issued to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division on Oct. 21 for "Delivery system radiopaque (RO) markers for TAVR commissure alignment" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,017, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Delivery system radiopaque (RO) markers for TAVR commissure alignment" was invented by Yousef F. Alkhatib (Edina, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter assembly for retaining a prosthetic valve as the prosthetic valve is guided to a point of delivery within a patient is provided with radioscopic markers. The markers are distributed within the catheter assembly such that an observer may discern a rotational orientation of the assembly from a radioscopic image of the assembly within the patient. Delivery of the prosthetic val...