US Patent Issued to Pipeline Medical Technologies on July 8 for "Method and apparatus for mitral valve chord repair" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,155, issued on July 8, was assigned to Pipeline Medical Technologies Inc. (Newark, Del.).

"Method and apparatus for mitral valve chord repair" was invented by Cameron Paul Purcell (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Gordon B. Bishop (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Trung Ho Pham (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Stephen R. McDaniel (San Rafael, Calif.), Hien Ngoc Lam (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Whittaker Ian Hamill (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Katie Nicole Riojas (Santa Rosa, 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. From an atrium side, the cathet...