US Patent Issued to AtriCure on May 12 for "Devices and methods for left atrial appendage closure" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,747, issued on May 12, was assigned to AtriCure Inc. (Mason, Ohio).

"Devices and methods for left atrial appendage closure" was invented by Gregory W. Fung (Redwood Shores, Calif.), Randall J. Lee (Hillsborough, Calif.), Russell Pong (Newark, Calif.), Robert L. Clark III (Hayward, Calif.) and Arnold M. Escano (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described here are devices, systems, and methods for closing the left atrial appendage. The methods described here utilize a closure device for closing the left atrial appendage and guides or expandable elements with ablation or abrading elements to ablate or abrade the left atrial...