US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Oct. 27 for "Left atrial appendage clipping device and methods for clipping the LAA" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,217, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Left atrial appendage clipping device and methods for clipping the LAA" was invented by William T. Bales (Miami), Derek Dee Deville (Coral Gables, Fla.), Matthew A. Palmer (Miami), Richard Cartledge (Boca Raton, Fla.), Michael Walter Kirk (Miami), Thomas O. Bales Jr. (Miami) and M. Sean McBrayer (Coral Gables, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical clip delivery device end effector that is configured to implant a clip having a pair of opposing clip struts each having a proximal end and a distal end includes a clevis, a pair of jaws connected to the clevis,...