ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,488, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to CLPH LLC (West Valley City, Utah).
"Isolation and attachment catheters and methods for using them" was invented by Stephen A. Leeflang (Sandy, Utah) and Christian S. Eversull (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for navigating within the heart and attaching to the wall of the heart for performing injection of one or more agents into tissue. The system includes an outer catheter, a mid catheter slidably disposed within a lumen of the outer catheter, and a needle catheter slidably disposed within a lumen of the mid catheter. The mid catheter includes ...