US Patent Issued to 4C Medical Technologies on Feb. 10 for "Hydrophilic skirt for paravalvular leak mitigation and fit and apposition optimization for prosthetic heart valve implants" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,226, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to 4C Medical Technologies Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Hydrophilic skirt for paravalvular leak mitigation and fit and apposition optimization for prosthetic heart valve implants" was invented by Saravana B. Kumar (Minnetonka, Minn.) and Jeffrey R. Stone (Minnetonka, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a prosthetic heart valve device with improved fit, apposition and/or paravalvular leakage mitigation. Thus, the prosthetic device comprises an anchoring structure for supporting prosthetic valve leaflets, wherein the anchoring structure comprises and/or is formed at le...