US Patent Issued to MEDTRONIC on March 3 for "Stented prosthetic heart valves" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,489, issued on March 3, was assigned to MEDTRONIC INC. (Minneapolis).

"Stented prosthetic heart valves" was invented by Billie J. Millwee (Fullerton, Calif.), Mark J. Capps (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Janice L. Shay (Lake Forest, Calif.), Debra A. Taitague (Huntington Beach, Calif.), Mark J. Dolan (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Carol E. Eberhardt (Fullerton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical sutureless valve that is attached to a stent frame for delivery to a location in a patient using percutaneous implantation devices and methods."

The patent was filed on Sept. 11, 2020, under Application No. 17/017,830.

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