US Patent Issued to COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, AVALON MEDICAL on July 21 for "Device and system for transcatheter mitral valve replacement" (Colorado, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,630, issued on July 21, was assigned to COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Fort Collins, Colo.) and AVALON MEDICAL LTD. (Stillwater, Minn.).

"Device and system for transcatheter mitral valve replacement" was invented by Kemal Schankereli (Stillwater, Minn.) and E. Christopher Orton (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to the design and function of a compressible valve replacement prosthesis which can be deployed into a beating heart without extracorporeal circulation using a transcatheter delivery system. The design as discussed focuses on the deployment of a device via a minimally in...