ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,672, issued on June 16, was assigned to Pipeline Medical Technologies Inc. (Newark, Del.).
"Pericardial anchoring system" was invented by Whittaker I. Hamill (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Todd J. Johnson (Flagstaff, Ariz.), Stephen R. McDaniel (San Rafael, Calif.), Cameron Paul Purcell (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Katie Nicole Riojas (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Kip J. Wetter (Petaluma, Calif.) and Paul Sorajja (Minneapolis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward apparatuses, systems, and methods for cardiac device anchoring and more specifically to accessing and anchoring in the pericardial space."
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