The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) officially issued U.S. patent number 11 million, reaching an important milestone in American innovation and ingenuity.

Patent number 11 million is granted to co-inventors Saravana B. Kumar and Jason S. Diedering of 4C Medical Technologies, Inc. in Maple Grove, Minnesota for a utility patent that provides a new method for delivering, positioning, and/or repositioning a collapsible and expandable stent frame within a patient's heart chamber.

Patent 11 million comes three years after the USPTO issued patent number 10 million in 2018.

News release is available here.

United States Issues Patent Number 11,000,000

Originally Published 13 May, 2021

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