US Patent Issued to VDyne on June 10 for "Tricuspid regurgitation control devices for orthogonal transcatheter heart valve prosthesis" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,737, issued on June 10, was assigned to VDyne Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Tricuspid regurgitation control devices for orthogonal transcatheter heart valve prosthesis" was invented by Robert Vidlund (Forest Lake, Minn.), Mark Christianson (Plymouth, Minn.) and Neelakantan Saikrishnan (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a heart valve regurgitation drum and optional closure disk and/or tubular stent to manage and provide levels of intentional regurgitation within an orthogonally delivered transcatheter prosthetic heart valve having a first inner flow control component/valve, a second inner regurgitat...