US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Nov. 3 for "Anchor tip designs for a medical implant for occluding a left atrial appendage" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,593, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Anchor tip designs for a medical implant for occluding a left atrial appendage" was invented by Neal Eidenschink (Wayzata, Minn.), Joshua Mark Inouye (Brooklyn Park, Minn.) and Harishankar Natesan (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical implant for occluding a left atrial appendage may include an expandable framework configured to shift between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration. The expandable framework may include a plurality of interconnected struts and a plurality of anchor members extending radially outwa...