ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,161, issued on April 7, was assigned to Anteris Technologies Corp. (Eagan, Minn.).
"Systems and methods for predictable commissural alignment of a replacement heart valve" was invented by Jason L. Quill (Forest Lake, Minn.), Dannah Dean (Minnetonka, Minn.), Cameron James Albin Murto (Saint Michael, Minn.), Edward James Anderson (Maple Grove, Minn.), Brad James Traeger (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Payton Kristine Parmett (Lakeville, Minn.), Nicholas Weldon Pensa (Minneapolis) and Joseph Allen Duerr (Andover, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A replacement heart valve prosthesis is loaded onto a balloon mounted onto a balloon shaft of a c...