US Patent Issued to VDyne on March 31 for "Devices and methods for delivering a prosthetic heart valve using supra-annular support" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,993, issued on March 31, was assigned to VDyne Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Devices and methods for delivering a prosthetic heart valve using supra-annular support" was invented by Craig Ekvall (East Bethel, Minn.) and Robert Vidlund (Forest Lake, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery system includes a delivery sheath with a control device and at least one supra-annular support being movable through a lumen of the delivery sheath. The control device includes a connection member coupled to a distal end of a control catheter. The connection member is configured to removably couple to the prosthetic valve at a proximal positio...