US Patent Issued to Anteris Technologies on Oct. 20 for "Expandable frame for improved hemodynamic performance of transcatheter replacement heart valve" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,997, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Anteris Technologies Corp. (Eagan, Minn.).

"Expandable frame for improved hemodynamic performance of transcatheter replacement heart valve" was invented by Ramji Iyer (Plymouth, Minn.), David Lawrence St. Denis Jr. (Parkland, Fla.), Samuel Thomas Johnson (Plymouth, Minn.), William Morris Leonard Neethling (Booragoon, Australia) and Martha Jeanne Engel (Saint Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A replacement heart valve prosthesis for transcatheter repair of a native valve, the replacement heart valve comprises a valve construct mounted to the exterior surface of an expandable frame. The ...