ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,092, issued on June 3, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"Left atrial appendage implant" was invented by Eric Dinges (Maple Grove, Minn.), Burns P. Doran (Monticello, Minn.), Dennis A. Peiffer (Brooklyn Park, Minn.), Anjali Begur (Maple Grove, Minn.), Thyna M. Chau (Woodbury, Minn.) and Grant Teal Smith (Andover, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implant for occluding a left atrial appendage may include an expandable framework configured to shift between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration. The expandable framework includes a proximal hub and a distal hub. A longitudinal axis...