ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,173, issued on April 29, was assigned to AtriCure Inc. (Mason, Ohio).
"Systems and methods for left atrial appendage closure" was invented by Dwight P. Morejohn (Davis, Calif.), Tamer Ibrahim (Danville, Calif.), Michael J. Banchieri (Discovery Bay, Calif.), Ara Stephanian (Davis, Calif.) and Brian Flores (Castro Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention encompass systems and methods for delivering ligatures to anatomical features of a patient. Exemplary ligature delivery systems for use in delivering a ligature to a left atrial appendage ligature include an elongate support mechanism having a p...