US Patent Issued to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES on July 29 for "Methods for securing a cardiac tissue anchor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,901, issued on July 29, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Methods for securing a cardiac tissue anchor" was invented by Steven Eric Decker (Anaheim, Calif.) and Matthew Michael Becerra (Lake Forest, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods for securing a tissue anchor in tissue of a patient, in particular to ensure proper deployment of a cardiac tissue anchor by regulating the force or pressure of a deployment tool against the tissue. One way to ensure proper deployment force is to visualize the distal end of the tissue anchoring catheter from outside the body using a display for an imagin...