US Patent Issued to MEDTRONIC on June 3 for "System and method of stepped deployment of prosthetic heart valve" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,293, issued on June 3, was assigned to MEDTRONIC INC. (Minneapolis).

"System and method of stepped deployment of prosthetic heart valve" was invented by Joel Racchini (Edina, Minn.), Paul Rothstein (Elk River, Minn.) and Jeffrey Sandstrom (Scandia, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for replacing a heart valve of a patient. The system includes a delivery device and a prosthetic heart valve. The system is configured to be transitionable between a loaded state, a partially deployed state and a deployed state. In the loaded state, the prosthetic heart valve engages a coupling structure and is compressively retained within a pr...