US Patent Issued to Evalve on June 9 for "Transapical removal device" (California, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,851, issued on June 9, was assigned to Evalve Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Transapical removal device" was invented by Eduardo De Marchena (Miami), Chad Abunassar (Alameda, Calif.) and Shengmin Mei (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods for removing a valve clip which is pre-positioned on a heart leaflet, the valve clip including a delivery catheter having a distal end portion configured to be positioned near a heart valve; a grasping tool deployable from the distal end portion of the delivery catheter, the grasping tool configured to grasp and manipulate a valve clip from an implanted condition to an elon...