US Patent Issued to Cardiva Medical on July 8 for "Apparatus and methods for accessing and closing multiple penetrations on a blood vessel" (California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,885, issued on July 8, was assigned to Cardiva Medical Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus and methods for accessing and closing multiple penetrations on a blood vessel" was invented by Zia Yassinzadeh (San Jose, Calif.), John L. Russell (Shoreview, Minn.) and Justin L. Ballotta (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multiple vascular wall penetrations are formed and sealed in a single blood vessel, typically a vein, for performing cardiac and other catheter-based procedures. Access sheaths are placed in two or more tissue tracts each having a vascular wall penetration at a distal end and into a lumen of the blood vessel. ...