US Patent Issued to University of Maryland, Baltimore, University of Maryland Medical System, Protaryx Medical on Feb. 17 for "Apparatus and method for septal punch" (Maryland, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,237, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore), University of Maryland Medical System Corp. (Baltimore) and Protaryx Medical Inc. (Baltimore).

"Apparatus and method for septal punch" was invented by James S. Gammie (Stevenson, Md.), Philip J. Haarstad (Chanhassen, Minn.), David Blaeser (Brooklyn Park, Minn.), Ryan Bauer (Plymouth, Minn.), Stephen Roller (Rockville, Md.), Rachael Quinn (Abingdon, Md.), Chetan Pasrija (Baltimore) and Edwin Hlavka (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method includes a shaft having a side catheter guide attached thereto via a guide coup...