ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,844, issued on May 13, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Artificial chordae deployment" was invented by Yaron Keidar (Kiryat Ono, Israel) and Adam J. Yestrepsky (Lake Forest, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can comprise advancing a suction cup at a distal end of a suction catheter into a heart chamber, contacting the suction cup to a heart valve leaflet, and partially axially collapsing the suction cup while applying a negative pressure through the suction catheter and the suction cup and contacting the suction cup to the heart valve leaflet."
The patent was filed on Dec. 15, 2022, under Ap...