ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,278, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"Left atrial appendage closure device" was invented by Jan-Hung Chen (St. Paul, Minn.), Harishankar Natesan (Shoreview, Minn.) and Thyna M. Chau (Woodbury, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A left atrial appendage closure device may include an expandable framework having a plurality of struts joined at a proximal and distal hub. When the framework is fully constrained in a first position, a first segment of struts extends distally from the distal hub parallel to a central longitudinal axis to a first bend and a second segment of struts exte...