US Patent Issued to Anteris Technologies on Oct. 20 for "Exteriorly mounted tissue on expandable frame for improved hemodynamic performance" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,998, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Anteris Technologies Corp. (Eagan, Minn.).

"Exteriorly mounted tissue on expandable frame for improved hemodynamic performance" 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 comprises a frame having a distal end, a proximal end, and a length between the distal end and the proximal end, the frame furthe...