US Patent Issued to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division on Jan. 20 for "Passive alignment of commissures in prosthetic heart valve implantation" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,663, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Passive alignment of commissures in prosthetic heart valve implantation" was invented by Brandon Moore (St. Louis Park, Minn.), Daniel J. Klima (Andover, Minn.), Kristopher Henry Vietmeier (Monticello, Minn.), Jay Reimer (Shoreview, Minn.), Peter J. Ness (Minneapolis), Ryan Finn (St. Paul, Minn.), Jeffrey Paul LaPlante (Minneapolis) and Michael Shane Morrissey (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery device for a collapsible prosthetic heart valve includes an inner shaft, an outer shaft, and a distal sheath. The dis...