ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,286, issued on June 3, was assigned to VDyne Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Cinch device and method for deployment of a side-delivered prosthetic heart valve in a native annulus" was invented by Mark Christianson (Plymouth, Minn.), Robert Vidlund (Forest Lake, Minn.), David Holtan (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Lucas Harder (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to anchor channels and subannular anchors for a transcatheter heart valve replacement, and in particular for an orthogonally delivered transcatheter prosthetic heart valve having a annular support frame having compressible wire cells that facilitate rolling ...