Delivery systems and methods of implantation for prosthetic heart valves

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8157853
APP PUB NO 20090198316A1
SERIAL NO

12357980

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A method of deploying an implantable stented device in an anatomical location of a patient, including the steps of providing a delivery system with first and second stent engagement structures at its distal end, attaching a first structural element of the stented device to the first stent engagement structure and attaching a second structural element of the stented device to the second stent engagement structure, advancing the stented device to an implantation site, and sequentially disengaging the first structural element of the stented device from the first stent engagement structure of the delivery system and then disengaging the second structural element of the stented device from the second stent engagement structure.

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MEDTRONIC INC710 MEDTRONIC PARKWAY NE MINNEAPOLIS MN 55432

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bloom, Eliot Hopkinton, US 31 8347
Laske, Timothy G Shoreview, US 138 9006
Majkrzak, Carolyn C San Clemente, US 6 1435
Ryan, Timothy R Shorewood, US 100 14744
Tabor, Charles Shoreview, US 37 5524

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