US Patent Issued to Pipeline Medical Technologies on Feb. 4 for "Method and apparatus for transvascular implantation of neo chordae tendinae" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,883, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Pipeline Medical Technologies Inc. (Newark, Del.).

"Method and apparatus for transvascular implantation of neo chordae tendinae" was invented by Gordon B. Bishop (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Randall T. Lashinski (Windsor, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices for transvascular prosthetic chordae tendinea implantation are disclosed. A catheter is advanced into the left atrium, through the mitral valve, and into the left ventricle. A ventricular anchor is deployed from the catheter and into a wall of the left ventricle, leaving a ventricular suture attached to the ventricular anchor...