US Patent Issued to PIPELINE MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES on May 26 for "Leaflet capture and anchor deployment system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,153, issued on May 26, was assigned to PIPELINE MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Newark, Del.).

"Leaflet capture and anchor deployment system" was invented by Trung Ho Pham (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Gordon B. Bishop (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Erik Griswold (Penngrove, Calif.), Stephen McDaniel (San Rafael, Calif.) and Cameron Paul Purcell (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices for transvascular prosthetic chordae tendinea implantation are disclosed. A catheter is advanced into the left atrium. From an atrium side, a leaflet connector carried by a distal end of the catheter can be anchored to a superior surface of a mi...