US Patent Issued to MEDTRONIC on May 26 for "Transcatheter valve delivery system with omnidirectional steering and methods of use thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,154, issued on May 26, was assigned to MEDTRONIC INC. (Minneapolis).

"Transcatheter valve delivery system with omnidirectional steering and methods of use thereof" was invented by Erik Griswold (Pennegrove, Calif.), Joshua Dwork (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Jamie Dunaway (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Finn Rinne (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Nathan Wiemeyer (Windsor, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery system for prosthetic heart valves are provided. The delivery system includes a flexible shaft, a distal sheath capsule configured to contain the prosthetic heart valve, an inner steerable catheter including an inner distal flex component, and ...