US Patent Issued to Evalve on July 14 for "Tunable fixation device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,278, issued on July 14, was assigned to Evalve Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Tunable fixation device" was invented by Chad J. Abunassar (Alameda, Calif.), Grant Glaze (San Francisco), Cindy Chaoyun Yang (San Francisco), Jill Mccoy (Los Altos, Calif.), Jessie A. Garcia (Newark, Calif.), Jonathan Cox (Saratoga, Calif.), Samir Jain (Mountain View, Calif.), Scott Mosher (San Francisco) and Roisin Verbael (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tunable fixation device for fixation of heart valve leaflets includes a central assembly, an arm moveably coupled to the central assembly, and a gripping element moveable relative to ...