US Patent Issued to Medtronic CV Luxembourg on Oct. 27 for "Valve delivery system including foreshortening compensator for improved positioning accuracy" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,315, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Medtronic CV Luxembourg SARL (Luxembourg).

"Valve delivery system including foreshortening compensator for improved positioning accuracy" was invented by Stephen Montgomery (Galway, Ireland) and Maro Sciacchitano (Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including a self-expanding prosthesis configured to foreshorten during deployment thereof and a delivery device configured to percutaneously deliver the self-expanding prosthesis. The delivery device includes a handle having an actuator thereon, an outer sheath including a proximal end coupled to the handle and a pusher shaft sli...