ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,839, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).
"Delivery devices and methods for right heart access" was invented by Theodore Paul Dale (Corcoran, Minn.) and Tracee Eidenschink (Wayzata, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect of the disclosure, a method of advancing a delivery catheter to a heart of a patient includes advancing a guidewire through the vasculature of the patient until the guidewire reaches a target treatment site in or adjacent to the heart. A dilator may be positioned within the delivery catheter so that a distal tip of the dilator extends be...