US Patent Issued to St. Jude Medical on March 24 for "Collapsible and re-expandable prosthetic heart valve cuff designs and complementary technological applications" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,519, issued on March 24, was assigned to St. Jude Medical LLC (Abbott Park, Ill.).

"Collapsible and re-expandable prosthetic heart valve cuff designs and complementary technological applications" was invented by Peter N. Braido (Wyoming, Minn.), Paul E. Ashworth (Danbury, Wis.) and Julia Ann Schraut (Shoreview, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic heart valve for replacement of a native heart valve having a native valve annulus includes a stent body having a proximal end adjacent an inflow end and a distal end adjacent an outflow end and including an annulus section, the stent body having a radially collapsed condition ...