US Patent Issued to Conformal Medical on Aug. 5 for "Devices and methods for excluding the left atrial appendage" (Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,861, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Conformal Medical Inc. (Nashua, N.H.).

"Devices and methods for excluding the left atrial appendage" was invented by Aaron V. Kaplan (Northwich, Vt.), David Melanson (Hudson, N.H.), Carol Devellian (Topsfield, Mass.), Andy H. Levine (Newton Highlands, Mass.) and Andres Chamorro (Ashland, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods are described for occluding the left atrial appendage (LAA) to exclude the LAA from blood flow to prevent blood from clotting within the LAA and subsequently embolizing, particularly in patients with atrial fibrillation. An implant is delivered via transcat...