US Patent Issued to VDyne on July 1 for "Anchor hook for side-delivery transcatheter heart valve prosthesis" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,256, issued on July 1, was assigned to VDyne Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Anchor hook for side-delivery transcatheter heart valve prosthesis" was invented by Mark Christianson (Plymouth, Minn.), Robert Vidlund (Forest Lake, Minn.), Chad Perrin (Andover, Minn.) and Craig Ekvall (East Bethel, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an anchor hook and methods of using the same for subannular anchoring of a transcatheter heart valve replacement, and in particular for an orthogonally delivered (side-delivered) transcatheter prosthetic heart valve having a annular support frame having compressible wire cells that facili...