ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,846, issued on May 13, was assigned to EVALVE INC (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Long arm valve repair clip" was invented by Chad Abunassar (San Francisco), Jessie Garcia (Newark, Calif.), Tamer Mahmoud (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Brandon Chu (San Francisco) and Santosh Prabhu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fixation device for engaging tissue including a pair of fixation elements, each fixation element has a first end and a second end opposite the first end, the first ends are moveable between a closed position and an open position. The fixation device further includes a pair of gripping elements. Each gripping element is moveab...