US Patent Issued to Laminar on Aug. 11 for "Devices, systems, and methods for treating the left atrial appendage" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,394, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Laminar Inc. (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

"Devices, systems, and methods for treating the left atrial appendage" was invented by Randall T. Lashinski (Windsor, Calif.), Joshua J. Dwork (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Michael James Lee (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Finn Olavi Rinne (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for treating a left atrial appendage, including an implant having a contact member configured to engage an inside tissue surface of the left atrial appendage and configured to rotate in at least a first direction from a first position to at least a second position so as to twist t...