US Patent Issued to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES on Aug. 26 for "Devices and methods for locating and implanting tissue anchors at mitral valve commissure" (North Carolina, New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,720, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Devices and methods for locating and implanting tissue anchors at mitral valve commissure" was invented by John Alexander (Pinehurst, N.C.), Megan E. Holmes (Nashua, N.H.), Richard D. Hudson (Seabrook, N.H.), Christopher C. Lee (Tweksbury, Mass.) and Steven D. Cahalane (Pelham, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is transluminally advanced into a subject. A first portion of the system is positioned adjacent a cardiovascular tissue of the subject, the system including wires disposed at the first portion. The first portion is stabilized at th...