US Patent Issued to Medtronic Vascular on July 14 for "Delivery system having an integral centering mechanism for positioning a valve prosthesis in situ" (Irish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,281, issued on July 14, was assigned to Medtronic Vascular Inc. (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

"Delivery system having an integral centering mechanism for positioning a valve prosthesis in situ" was invented by Niall Duffy (Ballybrit, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments hereof relate to a delivery system for a transcatheter valve prosthesis, the delivery system having an integral centering mechanism to circumferentially center both the delivery system and the valve prosthesis within a vessel at the target implantation site. The centering mechanism may include expandable wings that may be selectively aligned with openings formed...