ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,544, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"Embedded radiopaque marker in adaptive seal" was invented by Jasper Ellington Adamek-Bowers (San Francisco), Takashi H. Ino (San Jose, Calif.), Ali Salahieh (Saratoga, Calif.) and Leticia Marquez Zuniga (Gilroy, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seal member for use with a replacement heart valve implant may include a tubular polymeric seal element configured to be disposed on an outer surface of a replacement heart valve implant, the tubular polymeric seal element defining a central longitudinal axis; and a reinforcement strip fixedly a...