US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Sept. 29 for "Trans-septal delivery system and methods of use" (Minnesota, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,121, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Trans-septal delivery system and methods of use" was invented by James Keogh (Maplewood, Minn.) and Joshua Dwork (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery system for delivering a heart valve prosthesis includes a heart valve prosthesis and a delivery catheter. The heart valve prosthesis includes an anchoring member and an inner valve support, and further includes a radially collapsed configuration and a radially expanded configuration. The delivery catheter includes a handle, an outer shaft, an intermediate shaft, an inner shaft, and a distal...