US Patent Issued to MEDTRONIC on March 17 for "Integrated valve assembly and method of delivering and deploying an integrated valve assembly" (Minnesota, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,929, issued on March 17, was assigned to MEDTRONIC INC. (Minneapolis).

"Integrated valve assembly and method of delivering and deploying an integrated valve assembly" was invented by Paul Rothstein (Elk River, Minn.), Jeffrey Sandstrom (Scandia, Minn.) and Geoffrey Orth (Sebastopol, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated valve prosthesis includes an anchor stent, a tether component, and a valve component. The anchor stent includes a self-expanding tubular frame member configured to be deployed in the annulus of an aortic valve or the aorta. The valve component includes a valve frame and a prosthetic valve coupled to the...