ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,033, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"Aortic valve replacement" was invented by Dongming Hou (Plymouth, Minn.), Tim O'Connor (Galway, Ireland), Richard O'Sullivan (Turloughmore, Ireland) and Aiden Flanagan (Kilcolgan, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for securing a medical implant at a valve. An illustrative method may include advancing a delivery system though a vasculature to a target location. At the target location, the delivery system may be proximally retracted to expose a medical implant carried within a lumen of the delivery system. The medical...