US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Sept. 9 for "Devices, systems, and methods for clamping a leaflet of a heart valve" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,035, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Devices, systems, and methods for clamping a leaflet of a heart valve" was invented by Joel T. Eggert (Plymouth, Minn.), Aaron Abbott (Columbia Heights, Minn.), Daniel Shuey (Pine City, Minn.) and James P. Rohl (Prescott, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to the field of medical devices for clamping a leaflet of a heart valve. In particular, the present disclosure relates to medical devices, systems, and methods for delivering artificial chordae tendineae in a patient. In an embodiment, a system may...