US Patent Issued to EVALVE on Sept. 30 for "Systems for tissue grasping and assessment" (Canadian, American, Italian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,890, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to EVALVE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems for tissue grasping and assessment" was invented by Chad Abunassar (San Francisco), Louis-Philippe Richer (Montreal), Jan Mangual (Milan) and Nikolaos Politis (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems and methods are provided for stabilizing and grasping tissues such as valve leaflets, assessing the grasp of these tissues, approximating and fixating the tissues, and assessing the fixation of the tissues to treat cardiac valve regurgitation, particularly mitral valve regurgitation."

The patent was filed on March 18, 2022, under Applica...