US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences Innovation (Israel) on Sept. 8 for "Devices and methods for area reduction and closure of cardiac openings or cavities" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,003, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Innovation (Israel) Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).

"Devices and methods for area reduction and closure of cardiac openings or cavities" was invented by Lauren Anne Spiegel (Irvine, Calif.), Hao Shang (Irvine, Calif.), Sam Shafigh (Irvine, Calif.), Steven Eric Decker (Anaheim, Calif.) and Timothy Allen Dalton (Garden Grove, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multiple anchors are transluminally slid distally over and along a first portion of a tether to a heart of a subject. The anchors are anchored to tissue of the heart, with the first portion of the tether extending translumi...