US Patent Issued to Tendyne Holdings on March 31 for "Apparatus and methods for anterior valve leaflet management" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,986, issued on March 31, was assigned to Tendyne Holdings Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Apparatus and methods for anterior valve leaflet management" was invented by Zachary J. Tegels (Minneapolis) and Michael J. Urick (Chaska, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method includes delivering to a native valve annulus (e.g., a native mitral valve annulus) of a heart a prosthetic heart valve having a body expandable from a collapsed, delivery configuration to an expanded, deployed configuration. The method can further include, after the delivering, causing the prosthetic heart valve to move from the delivery configurat...