US Patent Issued to Abbott Cardiovascular Systems on June 23 for "System for fixation of leaflets of a heart valve" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,116, issued on June 23, was assigned to Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System for fixation of leaflets of a heart valve" was invented by Kent Dell (Redwood City, Calif.), Theodore Ketai (San Francisco), Tanmay Mishra (Mountain View, Calif.), Stephanie Jones (Naperville, Ill.), Jacob Greenberg (Redwood City, Calif.), Michael Hong (Emeryville, Calif.), Daniel Hale (Belmont, Calif.), Francisco Valencia (East Palo Alto, Calif.) and Steven Tyler (Portola Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides devices, systems and methods for tissue approximation and repair at treatment sites. The d...