ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,069, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to CORMOS MEDICAL GMBH (Jena, Germany).
"Atrial appendage occluder for closing the left atrial appendage" was invented by Robert Moszner (Bad Klosterlausnitz, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a novel multivalent atrial appendage occluder of hybrid design based on two different atrial appendage occluders, one having a proximal disk-shaped cover and a second version without a proximal cover. The two occluder variants each provide relevant application solutions by themselves. The invention further relates to multiple specified, universal devices composed of predominantl...