US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Aug. 18 for "Device for left atrial appendage" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,352, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Device for left atrial appendage" was invented by Jerry Wang (Edina, Minn.), Joshua Mark Inouye (Brooklyn Park, Minn.) and James M. Anderson (Corcoran, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Blood stagnation within a left atrial appendage (LAA) may be reduced by creating movement within the LAA. A variety of different actuatable devices, including magnetically actuated devices, may be implanted within the LAA. The actuatable device may be caused to become actuated, thereby causing the motion within the LAA. In some cases, causing the actuatable...