US Patent Issued to Medtronic Vascular on Oct. 20 for "Heart valve repair" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,000, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Medtronic Vascular Inc. (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

"Heart valve repair" was invented by Matthew E. Genovese (Windsor, Calif.), Vania Lee (Circle Pines, Minn.), Russell Pribanic (Roxbury, Conn.), Thomas J. McPeak (Caledonia, Minn.), Jeffrey Sandstrom (Scandia, Minn.), Dermot O'Brien (Ballinasloe, Ireland) and James Calvin Allan (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical system includes a catheter navigable through vasculature of patient to introduce a valve clip configured to join the edges of heart valve leaflets. The valve clip includes a deformable wire configured to engage valve leafl...