St. Jude Medical received a patent for its Regent Mechanical Heart Valve in 1999. USPTO Doctors, he says, were happy to donate valves to him, especially if they had multiple duplicates.

She is helping build the world's smallest pediatric mechanical heart valve for children with heart defects. (Jean Pieri / Pioneer Press) Officials at St. Jude Medical, which was acquired by ...

INDEPTH: A Matter of Trust Silzone mechanical heart valves, by St. Jude Medical, were coated in silver, the company says, to reduce the rate of infection in patients. Three years after the company ...

The device, which was initially developed by St. Jude Medical before it was acquired by Abbott, is about the size of a dime and is the first and only pediatric mechanical heart valve designed for ...