US Patent Issued to Medtronic Vascular on Aug. 11 for "Apparatus and methods for removal of heart valve ligation clip" (California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,415, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Medtronic Vascular Inc. (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

"Apparatus and methods for removal of heart valve ligation clip" was invented by Victoria Tien (Tustin, Calif.), Tasha Cheshko (Irvine, Calif.), Kshitija P. Garde (Fullerton, Calif.), Karl L. Olney (Irvine, Calif.), Luke Lehmann (Maple Grove, Minn.), Andrew Tiem-Yen Chang (Torrance, Calif.) and Claudia See (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure include apparatuses for and methods of removing a ligation clip interconnecting two mitral valve leaflets. Methods can include providing a mitral valve having first and secon...