US Patent Issued to MEDTRONIC VASCULAR on July 14 for "Transcatheter prosthetic heart valve delivery system with distal cutting assembly" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,282, issued on July 14, was assigned to MEDTRONIC VASCULAR INC. (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

"Transcatheter prosthetic heart valve delivery system with distal cutting assembly" was invented by Alan McGuinn (Oranmore, Ireland), Paul Devereux (Tuam, Ireland), Brendan Vaughan (Miltown Malbay, Ireland), David O'Toole (Oranmore, Ireland), Padraigh Jennings (Summerhill, Ireland), Michael Walsh (Oaklands, Ireland), Stephen Montgomery (Galway, Ireland) and Ronja Pfeiffer (Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to transcatheter stented prosthesis delivery devices including a handle assembly connected to a shaft assembl...