US Patent Issued to Coherex Medical on March 31 for "Deflectable sheath for left atrial appendage device, system, and method thereof" (Utah, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,911, issued on March 31, was assigned to Coherex Medical Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Deflectable sheath for left atrial appendage device, system, and method thereof" was invented by Marie A. K. Biscarrat (Salt Lake City), Tom Ditter (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Juan M. R. Soto (Laguna Hills, Calif.), Kyle W. Swainston (Draper, Utah) and Matthew F. Sheridan (Syracuse, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Medical devices, systems and methods for occluding a left atrial appendage of a heart with an implant are provided. In one embodiment, a medical device system includes a sheath for delivering the implant. The sheath includes, at a distal port...