US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Feb. 17 for "Coil and barb anchors for heart valve repair devices" (Minnesota, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,345, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Coil and barb anchors for heart valve repair devices" was invented by Graham Krumpelmann (Stillwater, Minn.), Mathew L. Gilk (Brooklyn Park, Minn.), Joshua M. Inouye (Maple Grove, Minn.), James M. Anderson (Corcoran, Minn.), Timothy Hillukka (Rogers, Minn.) and Kenny D. Bruner (Windsor, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Anchoring assemblies that increase the surface area and/or amount of anchored tissue include a barb anchor, translatably disposed within the opening of an anchor housing, the barb anchor comprising a barb arm, the barb arm...