US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Sept. 15 for "Devices and methods for delivery and deployment of balloon expandable transcatheter valves" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,032, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Devices and methods for delivery and deployment of balloon expandable transcatheter valves" was invented by William Berthiaume (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Conleth Mullen (Galway, Ireland), David Lydon (Galway, Ireland), Declan Silke (Galway, Ireland), James Mitchell (Windsor, Calif.), Kevin Newell (Tuam, Ireland), Leonila Rivera (Windsor, Calif.), Martha Barajas-Torres (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Matthew Norgrove (Dublin), Micheal Fallon (Galway, Ireland), Reiss Connolly (Galway, Ireland), Victoria Ung (Novato, Calif.) and William Chang (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trade...