ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,222, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Versa Vascular Inc..
"System and method for cardiac valve repair" was invented by Andrew Backus (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Jeremy J. Boyette (Woodside, Calif.), Daniel T. Wallace (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Juan Granada (Upper Saddle River, N.J.), Peter W. Gregg (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Spencer C. Noe (San Miguel, Calif.) and Evelyn N. Haynes (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery device for cardiac valve repair implants includes a delivery catheter, a sheath extending around the delivery catheter and including a distal opening, and a control arm assembly releasably coupleable to a card...