US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on Dec. 23 for "Trigger-based tissue anchor deployment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,170, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Trigger-based tissue anchor deployment" was invented by John Richard Carpenter (Santa Ana, Calif.) and Bryan A. Janish (Huntington Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical instrument includes a handle, a suture lock associated with the handle, the suture lock being configured to fix a position of a portion of a suture line relative to a portion of the handle when the suture lock is in a locked configuration, and a manually-actuatable actuator associated with the handle and configured to cause the suture lock to transition from the lock...