US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on July 14 for "Fluid bypass conduit for left atrial pressure management" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,166, issued on July 14, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Fluid bypass conduit for left atrial pressure management" was invented by Michael G Valdez (Riverside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of managing left atrial pressure 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 end of a bypass fluid conduit from the delivery catheter, anchoring the distal end of the bypass fluid conduit to a pulmonary vein, withdra...