US Patent Issued to Medtronic CV Luxembourg on April 7 for "Anti-paravalvular leakage component for a transcatheter valve prosthesis" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,158, issued on April 7, was assigned to Medtronic CV Luxembourg SARL (Luxembourg).

"Anti-paravalvular leakage component for a transcatheter valve prosthesis" was invented by Carol Eberhardt (Fullerton, Calif.), Gopikrishnan Soundararajan (Irvine, Calif.), Kenny Dang (Santa Ana, Calif.), Hussain Rangwala (Santa Ana, Calif.), Mark Torrianni (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), Eric Richardson (Santa Ana, Calif.) and Kshitija Garde (Santa Ana, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transcatheter valve prosthesis includes an expandable tubular stent, a prosthetic valve within the stent, and an anti-paravalvular leakage component coupled to an...