US Patent Issued to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division on April 21 for "Prosthetic heart valve with atrial drain" (Minnesota, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,246, issued on April 21, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Prosthetic heart valve with atrial drain" was invented by Alec King (Maple Grove, Minn.) and Grayston Licht (Riverside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic heart valve includes an outer frame, an outer sealing skirt, an inner frame, an inner sealing skirt, a plurality of prosthetic leaflets mounted within the inner frame, and a plurality of connecting arms connecting the inner frame to the outer frame so that the inner frame is positioned radially inward of the outer frame. A bridging skirt extends from the outer sea...