US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Oct. 6 for "Mechanical guides for preferential leaflet folding during crimping" (Minnesota, Oregon, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,823, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Mechanical guides for preferential leaflet folding during crimping" was invented by Jason Bowe (Blaine, Minn.), Matthew Genovese (Windsor, Calif.), Victoria Ung (Novato, Calif.), Jeffrey Sandstrom (Scandia, Minn.), Matthew Ziebol (Blaine, Minn.), Steven Claessens (Tualatin, Ore.), Radhika Bhargav (Mountain View, Calif.), Alkindi Kibria (Irvine, Calif.), Salvador O. Avelar (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Brian Castelli (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly including a transcatheter valve prosthesis and a leaflet folding accessory configured for use ...