US Patent Issued to Medtronic Vascular on Aug. 18 for "Transcatheter valve recapture devices and methods" (California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,512, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Medtronic Vascular Inc. (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

"Transcatheter valve recapture devices and methods" was invented by Erik Griswold (Penngrove, Calif.), David Grossman (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Radhika Bhargav (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Victoria Tien (Tustin, Calif.) and Priya Nair (Shoreview, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Delivery catheters for delivery of prosthetic heart valves are provided. The delivery catheters include brim recapture funnels configured for recapture of prosthetic heart valves. The brim recapture funnels are configured to recapture valve brims of partially deployed prosthetic he...