US Patent Issued to Syntach on Nov. 25 for "Access device for a heart, a removable hemostatic valve unit, and a system and a method of creating a transapical passage on a beating heart" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,403, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Syntach AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Access device for a heart, a removable hemostatic valve unit, and a system and a method of creating a transapical passage on a beating heart" was invented by Jan Otto Solem (Bjarred, Sweden), Kristian Solem (Trelleborg, Sweden), Daniel Engvall (Halmstad, Sweden) and Martin Wolff (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access device for a heart chamber, a removable hemostatic valve unit, and a system and a method of creating a transapical passage on a beating heart are disclosed. In examples, the access device (1) includes an apical base plate (10...