US Patent Issued to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division on Sept. 30 for "Transcatheter mitral valve fixation concepts" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,018, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Transcatheter mitral valve fixation concepts" was invented by Kristopher Henry Vietmeier (Monticello, Minn.), Theodore Paul Dale (Corcoran, Minn.) and Brian Joseph Perszyk (Shoreview, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic heart valve includes stabilization features for anchoring the prosthetic heart valve within a native valve annulus. The prosthetic heart valve includes an expandable stent having an inflow end and an outflow end, and a valve assembly disposed within the stent. One such stabilization feature is a collap...