ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,305, issued on May 6, was assigned to Alleviant Medical Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Transcatheter device for interatrial anastomosis" was invented by Christopher Alexander Arevalos (Austin, Texas), Albertien Greijdanus (Austin, Texas), Jacob Kriegel (Austin, Texas) and Avni Patel (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a device assembly and a method for treating heart failure by normalizing elevated blood pressure in the left atrium of a heart of a mammal Disclosed herein is a RF energy-based transcatheter interatrial septum excision device configured to create a sized interatrial aperture between t...