US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on June 30 for "Left atrial appendage closure device with passive fixation" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,364, issued on June 30, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Left atrial appendage closure device with passive fixation" was invented by Srikara Viswanath Peelukhana (Maple Grove, Minn.), Mark Christian McPhail (Maple Grove, Minn.) and Brian Joseph Tischler (Shoreview, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An occlusive medical implant for implantation within a left atrial appendage may include an expandable framework configured to self-expand from a collapsed configuration to an expanded configuration, and an occlusive element disposed on a proximal portion of the expandable framework. At least a portio...