ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,062, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Pipeline Medical Technologies Inc. (Newark, Del.).
"Method and apparatus for mitral valve chord repair" was invented by Gordon B. Bishop (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Erik Griswold (Penngrove, Calif.), Stephen R. McDaniel (San Rafael, Calif.), Trung H. Pham (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Cameron P. Purcell (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Hien N. Lam (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 catheter can be anchored to a superior surface of a mitral...