US Patent Issued to AtriCure on March 3 for "Friction compensating, even pressure clip" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,411, issued on March 3, was assigned to AtriCure Inc. (Mason, Ohio).

"Friction compensating, even pressure clip" was invented by Carol Ann Mata (Cincinnati) and Frank M. Fago (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clip applier and method provide for surgically minimizing or eliminating a tissue appendage of the patient using an occlusion clip. An end effector of the clip applier has first and second channels that respectively receive/engage first and second elongate beams of the clip. The clip includes strand(s) that forms a loop through the first and the second elongate beams. Terminal segments of the strand(s) extend proxima...