US Patent Issued to MEDTRONIC on March 31 for "Cardiac valve repair devices and associated systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,996, issued on March 31, was assigned to MEDTRONIC INC. (Minneapolis).

"Cardiac valve repair devices and associated systems and methods" was invented by Katherine Miyashiro (Menlo Park, Calif.), Hanson S. Gifford III (Woodside, Calif.), James I. Fann (Portola Valley, Calif.), Ben F. Brian III (Menlo Park, Calif.), Gaurav Krishnamurthy (Mountain View, Calif.), Jose Gonzalez (Fremont, Calif.), Paul Gunning (San Francisco), Matthew McLean (San Francisco), Neil Zimmerman (Menlo Park, Calif.), Robert O'Grady (San Francisco), Douglas S. Sutton (Pacifica, Calif.), Jean-Pierre Dueri (San Mateo, Calif.), Ryan Helmuth (Woodside, Calif.) and Marine De Gouy (Redwood City, Calif.).

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