US Patent Issued to MEDTRONIC on April 21 for "Balloon expandable stent with symmetrical crimped configuration for transcatheter implantation of a cardiac valve prosthesis" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,245, issued on April 21, was assigned to MEDTRONIC INC. (Minneapolis).

"Balloon expandable stent with symmetrical crimped configuration for transcatheter implantation of a cardiac valve prosthesis" was invented by Justin Peterson (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Stuart Kari (Windsor, Calif.), Shahnaz Javani (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Genevieve Farrar (Novato, Calif.) and Syed Askari (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transcatheter valve prosthesis includes a stent and a prosthetic valve. The prosthetic valve is configured to substantially block blood flow in one direction to regulate blood flow through a central lumen of the stent. ...