US Patent Issued to Transmural Systems on March 11 for "Cardiac annuloplasty procedures, related devices and methods" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,941, issued on March 11, was assigned to Transmural Systems LLC (Andover, Mass.).

"Cardiac annuloplasty procedures, related devices and methods" was invented by Nasser Rafiee (Andover, Mass.), Stuart Macdonald (Andover, Mass.) and Koosha Rafiee (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods are disclosed for the treatment or repair of regurgitant cardiac valves, such as a mitral valve and/or tricuspid valve. An illustrative annuloplasty device can be placed in the coronary sinus to reshape the mitral valve and reduce mitral valve regurgitation as well as tricuspid regurgitation. The disclosure also provides impro...