ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,565, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to RECROSS CARDIO INC. (Dover, Del.).
"Crossable interseptal occluder device" was invented by Giovanni Rolando (Milan), Marta Antonucci (Milan) and Simona Roggero (Milan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crossable interseptal occluder device has a support structure having a central support structure portion delimiting a lumen, anchoring portions, and is configured to contract and expand between a compressed configuration and an expanded configuration in which the anchoring portions extend radially outwards from the central support structure portion to compress a partition by arranging the support str...