US Patent Issued to MEDTRONIC on April 7 for "Cardiac valve repair devices with annuloplasty features and associated systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,162, issued on April 7, was assigned to MEDTRONIC INC. (Minneapolis).

"Cardiac valve repair devices with annuloplasty features and associated systems and methods" was invented by Hanson S. Gifford III (Woodside, Calif.), Matthew McLean (San Francisco), Gaurav Krishnamurthy (Mountain View, Calif.) and Neil Zimmerman (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cardiac valve repair devices with annuloplasty features and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. A cardiac valve repair device configured in accordance with embodiments of the present technology can include, for example, an atrial fixation member configured...