US Patent Issued to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division on July 21 for "Bowed runners for paravalvular leak protection" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,633, issued on July 21, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Bowed runners for paravalvular leak protection" was invented by Ryan Buesseler (Delano, Minn.), Ott Khouengboua (Chaska, Minn.), Jane M. Korfe (Buffalo, Minn.), Kristopher Henry Vietmeier (Monticello, Minn.) and Saravana B. Kumar (Minnetonka, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic heart valve for replacing a native valve includes a collapsible and expandable stent having a proximal end and a distal end, the stent being formed of a plurality of struts forming cells. A valve assembly is disposed within the stent, the valve a...