ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,765, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).
"Valve leaflet resection device" was invented by Matthew Genovese (Windsor, Calif.), Jonathan Primeaux (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and William Chang (Santa Rosa, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve leaflet resection device includes a catheter (110), an electrode assembly (140) slidably disposed within the catheter and deployable from the catheter and configured to remove a portion of a leaflet of a heart valve, a leaflet retainer (130) slidably disposed within the catheter and deployable from the catheter, the leaflet retainer configured to grasp a leaflet of a he...