US Patent Issued to AtriCure on July 14 for "Appendage clamp deployment assist device" (Ohio, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,168, issued on July 14, was assigned to AtriCure Inc. (Mason, Ohio).

"Appendage clamp deployment assist device" was invented by Salvatore Privitera (Mason, Ohio), Matthew Monti (Cincinnati), Adam Harp (Cincinnati), Kenneth Miller (Hamilton, Ohio) and Jason Glithero (McDonough, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The instant disclosure is directed to devices and methods for deploying a biased occlusion clamp. In addition, the present disclosure includes devices and methods for deploying a biased occlusion clamp using robotics. Moreover, the present disclosure includes devices and methods for reducing the force necessary to open an occl...