US Patent Issued to Medtronic on June 23 for "Systems for dry tissue valves and methods of use thereof" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,249, issued on June 23, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Systems for dry tissue valves and methods of use thereof" was invented by Alan T. McGuinn (Oranmore, Ireland) and Conleth A. Mullen (Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dry valve crimping and loading system includes packaging, a crimper disposed in the packaging, and a dry valve prosthesis disposed within a crimper chamber of the crimper. The crimper chamber has a first volume in an expanded state a second volume in a collapsed state, wherein the first volume is greater than the second volume. The crimper is configured to transition the dry valve pros...