US Patent Issued to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES on Sept. 23 for "Devices and methods for percutaneous tricuspid valve repair" (Massachusetts, North Carolina, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,633, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Devices and methods for percutaneous tricuspid valve repair" was invented by Adam Groothuis (Swampscott, Mass.), Steven D. Cahalane (Pelham, N.H.), Richard J. Morrill (North Billerica, Mass.) and John Alexander (Pinehurst, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first end of a wire is transluminally penetrated through tissue at a first cardiovascular site of a subject. A capture device is transluminally advanced into the subject, and is used to capture the first end of the wire and pull the first end of the wire away from the first cardiovascular si...