US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on Aug. 11 for "Blood-vessel-anchored cardiac sensor" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,311, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Blood-vessel-anchored cardiac sensor" was invented by Michael G. Valdez (Riverside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of sensing a physiological parameter involves advancing a delivery catheter to a right atrium of a heart of a patient via a transcatheter access path, advancing the delivery catheter through an interatrial septum wall into a left atrium of the heart, deploying a distal anchor of a sensor implant device from the delivery catheter, anchoring the distal anchor of the sensor implant device to a first pulmonary vein, withdraw...